To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Attitude is everything.
Attitude is everything.
Comedy, Drama
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1995
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Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When the two meet pathetic drag novice Chi-Chi Rodriguez — one of the losers that evening — the charmed Vida and Noxeema agree to take the hopeless youngster under their joined wing. Soon the three set off on a madcap road trip across America and struggle to make it to Los Angeles in time.
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Details
Runtime:
108 min
Release date:
8 Sep 1995
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$47,774,193
Awards:
3 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
A politically correct comedy about drag queens? This is the American response to the superior Aussie flick Adventures of Priscilla. Macho Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, and John Leguizamo can't lift it above the routine.
– Emanuel Levy,
Variety,
31 Dec 2006
rotten:
Leguizamo's Chi Chi is the only one who looks anything like a drag queen, let alone a woman; yet we are asked to believe that it's Swayze's breathy Vida and Snipes' squealing Noxeema who've got their stocking seams straight.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
rotten:
Kidron's direction stays flat even when the actors are funny. It doesn't help that the screenplay, by Douglas Carter Beane, is so thin that one of its biggest events is the three main characters' having car trouble.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
Imagine, "Wong Foo" suggests, a world where people stopped judging one another and simply surrendered to the silliness that's dormant inside us.
– Edward Guthmann,
San Francisco Chronicle,
18 Jun 2002
fresh:
Improbable as this all sounds, "Wong Foo" is a great deal of fun and a small step forward in Hollywood's depiction of homosexuals.
– Rita Kempley,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000