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Pink Flamingos
1972
· Movie
· 93 min
C
MEANRANK
62/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3783
- IMDb #4618
- Rotten Tomatoes #1900
- Metacritic #4602
- Letterboxd #2285
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1790
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2511
- Metacritic Critics #3740
- Metacritic Audience #4988
- Criticker #1847
- Kinopoisk #5242
- AlloCiné #3500
- Trakt #4623
Every rating
44–83
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Metacritic users on 44, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 83.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A notorious criminal known as "the filthiest person alive" lives in a trailer with her eccentric family. They engage in a grotesque battle of depravity with a married couple who aspire to steal her title. The families compete through a series of increasingly shocking and outrageous acts to see who can truly claim the crown of the most vile and decadent.
Details
- Director
- John Waters
- Writer
- John Waters
- Studio
- Dreamland
- Released
- 17 March 1972
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Rated
- NC-17
- Budget
- $12.0K
- Box office
- $6.0M
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