Two drag queens and a transgender woman contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a town in the remote Australian desert. As they head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla, the three friends come to the forefront of a comedy of errors, encountering a number of strange characters, as well as incidents of homophobia, whilst widening comfort zones and finding new horizons.
The year's one clear candidate for future cult status.
– Lucy Mohl,
Film.com,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Bernadette -- formerly Ralph -- turns out to be an excellent role for Stamp.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
It's too bad that the requirements of plotting require movies like this to crank up the event count, when actually what works is just the daily minutiae of Bernadette's life.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
In this roaringly comic and powerfully affecting road movie, Terence Stamp gives one of the year's best performances.