Female Trouble is a 1974 American independent[1] dark comedy film written, produced and directed by John Waters.

In Baltimore in 1960, delinquent high-school student Dawn Davenport goes berserk when her parents refuse to buy her the cha-cha heels she wanted for Christmas.

Dawn hitchhikes a ride with a repulsive, lecherous man, Earl Peterson, who drives her to a dump where they have sex on a discarded mattress.

Dawn works various dead-end jobs, such as a waitress in a diner, and a stripper, and engages in criminal activities such as burglary and street prostitution with her former high-school friends Concetta and Chicklette.

Taffy returns home, falsely claims she was unable to locate her father, and announces she is joining the Hare Krishna movement.

As part of her nightclub act, Dawn bounces on a trampoline, tears a phone directory into pieces, and cavorts in a crib full of dead fish.

When police arrive to ostensibly subdue the crowd, they shoot several audience members themselves but allow the Dashers to leave when they claim to be upright citizens.

The lyrics to the title song, sung by Divine, were written by Waters and set to the instrumental track of "Black Velvet Soul" by jazz musician Cookie Thomas.

The website's critics consensus reads, "Director John Waters' affection for camp brings texture to societal transgression in Female Trouble, a brazenly subversive dive into celebrity and mayhem.

Isn't there a law or something?— Rex Reed[4]The initial 16 mm release of the film which was shown at colleges ran 92 minutes.