Female Trouble: A Screenplay

"Burroughs famously dubbed Waters the Pope of Trash. Female Trouble, we might say, is his Summa Trashologica."
--Ed Halter, The Criterion Collection

It all goes to hell when Baltimore bad girl Dawn Davenport doesn't get the cha-cha heels she's been demanding for Christmas. In this hilarious, irreverent, pyrotechnic melee of high-trash hijinks, Dawn ruins Christmas, skips town, and embarks on a wild ride that involves hitchhiking, robbery, murder, pregnancy--and, of course, modeling and glamour, too. The second installment of John Waters' classic Trash Trilogy, Female Trouble explodes conventional norms of good behavior (and art) and is all the proof you'll ever need that sometimes being bad can feel so, so very good.

Author: John Waters
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 10/21/2025
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.00w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781250371256
ISBN10: 1250371252
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Comedy
- Performing Arts | Film | Genres | Crime
- Performing Arts | Screenplays

About the Author
John Waters is a writer, a film director, an actor, and a visual artist best known for his films, including Hairspray, Pink Flamingos, and Serial Mom. He is the author of the national bestsellers Role Models, Carsick, and Mr. Know-It-All. His spoken-word shows This Filthy World, False Negative, End of the World, and A John Waters Christmas continue to be performed around the world. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.