- A John Waters film where Divine plays Diane Linkletter, daughter of Art Linkletter and commits suicide.
- This improvised film is based on the real-life suicide of TV personality Art Linkletter's daughter Diane. Mr. and Mrs. Linkletter fret about their daughter's recent behavior, which includes taking drugs and dating a lowlife named Jim. Eventually, the parents confront Diane--with tragic consequences.—Anonymous
- Art Linkletter (David Lochary) and Mrs. Linkletter (Mary Vivian Pearce) are sitting up late one night, waiting for their young daughter Diane (Divine) to return home. They have a conversation that indicates they are worried about their daughter's behavior; they are an upper-middle class family and they disapprove of Diane's association with hippie culture. They fear she is experimenting with sex and drugs, and that this will lead to her downfall.
In the midst of their discussion, Diane returns, wearing outrageous hippie clothes and apparently stoned. The Linkletters confront her about her friends, especially her boyfriend, Jim. Diane assures them that there's nothing to worry about, and that she's simply "doing her own thing in her own time." Her attitude is carefree, and the Linkletters realize that Diane is high. She tells them she's been smoking pot and taking LSD.
Art Linkletter phones the doctor and tells him to come to the house, while Diane argues with Mrs. Linkletter that there's nothing wrong and she doesn't need a doctor. The argument becomes more heated; Diane informs the Linkletters that her intention is to move out of the house and into a hippie commune with Jim. The Linkletters do not want her to associate with Jim or her friends anymore, and encourage her to meet a nice boy from the country club. Mrs. Linkletter questions her about her sex life with Jim, and Diane announces that she wishes she were pregnant. Her mother slaps her across the face, and Diane leaps up from her chair, screaming in surprise and confusion.
Diane runs upstairs to her room, while her parents stay downstairs, outraged at their daughter's behavior. Mr. Linkletter loudly calls Diane a "disgusting slut", while Diane sobs in her room about Jim. Despondent, Diane suddenly runs to her window and hurls herself out. The Linkletters run upstairs, shouting "We're too late!" The last image is of Diane's dying body on the sidewalk below the window.
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By what name was The Diane Linkletter Story (1970) officially released in Canada in English?
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