Why is the movie named Pink Flamingos?

Pink flamingos are yard decorations that are often associated with trashy mobile homes and people who are often viewed as "trailer trash", which can easily represent the motley crew in the film. read more

Pink flamingos are yard decorations that are often associated with trashy mobile homes and people who are often viewed as "trailer trash", which can easily represent the motley crew in the film. Though, given Waters' predilection for the campy, weird and kitschy, he probably admires the symbolism as some great icon of americana. read more

Pink Flamingos was released on VHS and Betamax in 1981, and the re-release in 1997 by New Line Home Video became the second best-selling VHS for its week of release. The film was released in the John Waters Collection DVD box set along with the original NC-17 version of A Dirty Shame, Desperate Living, Female Trouble, Hairspray, Pecker, and Polyester. read more

After watching this movie one can easily justify that why the movie is named as PINK. Pink relates to the girlish characters of the women. This movie debates on the topic of outraging the modesty" of a woman, by someone, under certain circumstances and with a precise definition of what constitutes a woman's 'modesty'. read more

The Joyce Theater in 2009; this building formerly housed the Elgin Theater, where Pink Flamingos was screened as a midnight movie in the early 1970s. Being picked up by the then-small independent company New Line Cinema, Pink Flamingos was later distributed to Ben Barenholtz, the owner of the Elgin Theater in New York City. read more