To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Attitude is everything
Attitude is everything
Comedy
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1995
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Three New York drag queens on their way to Hollywood for a beauty pageant get stranded in a small Midwestern town for the entire weekend when their car breaks down. While waiting for parts for their Cadillac convertible, the flamboyant trio shows the local homophobic rednecks that appearing different doesn't mean they don't have humanity in common.
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Rated:
PG-13
Runtime:
109 min
Release date:
7 Sep 1995
Country:
US
Languages:
English, Spanish
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$47,774,193
Awards:
3 nominations
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