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:See also Caribbean flamingo. :See also Plastic flamingos.

Pink Flamingos is a 1972 film directed by John Waters. It made an underground star of the flamboyant and obese drag queen Divine. The independent film also stars David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Danny Mills, Channing Wilroy, Cookie Mueller, Paul Swift, and Edith Massey. Produced to a budget of only $12000, it was shot on weekends in the vicinity of Baltimore, Maryland.

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Divine lives under the pseudonym "Babs Johnson" with her egg-loving mother, Mama Edie, delinquent son Crackers, and Cotton, a like-minded companion whose simple pleasure is voyeurism. They reside in a mobile home (in front of which can be found a pair of pink, plastic flamingos, accounting for the film's title) on Philpot Road in Phoenix, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore (John Waters' hometown). After finding that Divine had been named "the filthiest person in the world" by a paper, a rival family, the Marbles, set out to destroy the tight-knit family but come unstuck in the process. The Marbles own an "adoption clinic," which is actually a black market of babies. They kidnap young women, rape them, and let them die in child birth.

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