Divine Trash

Divine Trash is a 1998 American documentary film directed by Steve Yeager about the life and work of filmmaker John Waters, and the making of the 1972 film Pink Flamingos, which is written and directed by Waters and stars Divine.^[1][2]

Divine Trash
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Directed by	Steve Yeager
Produced by	Steve Yeager; Cindy Miller
Starring	Steve Yeager John Waters The Dreamlanders Steve Buscemi
Cinematography	Steve Yeager
Edited by	Steve Yeager
Music by	Don Barto
Distributed by	Fox Lorber
Release date	January 18, 1998 (1998-01-18)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$10,000
Box office	$39,842

Divine Trash premiered at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, where it won Yeager the Filmmakers Trophy for Best Documentary.^[3]

Cast

• Steve Yeager
• John Waters
• Robert Shaye
• Mink Stole
• Divine (archive footage)
• David Lochary (archive footage)
• Edith Massey (archive footage)
• Herschell Gordon Lewis
• Danny Mills
• Mary Vivian Pearce
• Vincent Peranio
• Paul Swift
• John Pierson
• Hal Hartley
• Steve Buscemi
• Jim Jarmusch
• Channing Wilroy
• Mary Avara
• David O. Russell
• Paul Morrissey
• Jonas Mekas
• George Kuchar
• Mike Kuchar
• Ken Jacobs

Release

Divine Trash had its premiere at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival in Utah, where it won Yeager the Filmmakers Trophy for Best Documentary.^[3] Following its Sundance premiere, Yeager re-cut the film in order to excise roughly eight minutes of footage from films and television programs for which he had not secured the usage rights; after being re-edited, Divine Trash screened at the Senator Theatre in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 5, 1998.^[4]

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 80% based on five reviews, with an average rating of 6.9/10.^[5]