Pink Flamingos is a 1972 American transgressive black comedy film directed, written, produced, filmed and edited by John Waters. It is part of what Waters has labelled the "Trash Trilogy", which also includes his following films Female Trouble (1974) and Desperate Living (1977). The films stars the countercultural drag queen Divine as herself, interpreting a criminal living under the name of Babs Johnson that proudly bears the title of "the filthiest person alive". While living in a trailer with Edie (Edith Massey) and Crackers (Danny Mills) —her mother and son respectively—, and companion Cotton (Mary Vivian Pearce), Divine is confronted by the Marbles (David Lochary and Mink Stole), a couple of criminals envious of her reputation. The characters engage in several grotesque, bizarre and explicitly crude situations.