Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Age rating
- 18
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Teenage delinquent Dawn Davenport, incensed after her parents do not give her the cha-cha heels she wanted for Christmas, runs away from home. After an illegitimate child and hairstylist husband bring her more misery, she's enticed into a life of crime when the owners of her husband's salon promise her fame and fortune.
- rape
- parent child relationship
- delinquent
- black humor
- run away
- juvenile delinquent
- hitchhiking
- drag
- acid
- gay theme
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Divine
Dawn Davenport / Earl Peterson
David Lochary
Donald Dasher
Mary Vivian Pearce
Donna Dasher
Mink Stole
Taffy Davenport
- Edith Massey — Aunt Ida
- Cookie Mueller — Concetta
- Susan Walsh — Chicklette
- Michael Potter — Gater
- Ed Peranio — Wink
- Paul Swift — Butterfly
- George Figgs — Dribbles
- Susan Lowe — Vikki
- George Hulse — Teacher
- Margie Skidmore — School Snitch
- Berenica Cipcus — Mean Girl
- Directed
- John Waters
- Written
- John Waters
Production
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 · 238 ratings
- Studio
- Dreamland
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
