Multiple Maniacs (1970): Cast, Box Office & Plot

” Admission is free, but the performers must persuade, and sometimes physically drag, reluctant passersby inside to witness their rough, bawdy showcase. At the end of each night, Lady Divine returns to the stage to rob the audience at gunpoint, a routine that her lover Mr. David, David Lochary, initially notes as successful. Yet Divine grows bored with the nightly pattern and resolves to escalate from robbery to murder, turning the finale into a spree that leaves patrons dead and shaken. After fleeing the scene, she heads home to Cookie Divine, Cookie Mueller, her prostitute daughter, and her new boyfriend Steve, Paul Swift, a member of the Weather Underground, who occupies a tense place in this volatile household.