A traveling show of misfits make their way to Baltimore. Criterion Collection Year 2017 Video Release 2017-03-21 Studio Criterion Collection Genre Comedy MPAA Rating Not Rated Color Color Runtime 96 Animated Live-Action Full Synopsis John Waters' gloriously grotesque second feature is replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema's most memorably blasphemous moments. Made on a shoestring budget in Waters' native Baltimore, with the filmmaker taking on nearly every technical task, this gleeful mockery of the peace-and-love ethos of its era features the Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling show mounted by a troupe of misfits whose shocking proclivities are topped only by those of their leader the glammer-than-glam, larger-than-life Divine, out for blood after discovering her lover's affair. Starring members of Waters' beloved regular cast, the Dreamlanders including David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Susan Lowe, Edith Massey, George Figgs, and Cookie Mueller , Multiple Maniacs is an anarchic masterwork from an artist who has doggedly tested the limits of good taste for decades. Director John Waters Cast John Waters; Divine; David Lochary; Mary Vivian Pearce; Mink Stole; Susan Lowe