by Universal Studios
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| Sales Rank: | 4386 (lower is better) |
| Price as of: | 11/28/2008 11:17:47 AM MST |
| Price Used: | $2.98 |
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| Director: | Beeban Kidron |
| Release Date: | 2003-01-07 |
| Label: | Universal Studios |
| UPC: | 025192002120 |
| Binding: | DVD |
| Published By: | Universal Studios |
| ASIN: | B0000714BP |
| Category: | DVD |
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Product Description
Car trouble strands three drag queens in a conservative midwestern town. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 12/28/2004 Starring: Wesley Snipes Patrick Swayze Run time: 109 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Beeban Kidron
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This clunky road movie about three drag queens (Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, and John Leguziamo) who get stranded in a sleepy Nebraska town on their way to a beauty contest, is too uplifting for its own good. Released during drag's mid-'90s heyday when RuPaul and the Wigstock documentary were all the rage, To Wong Foo aimed straight for the mainstream with its inoffensive camp and "can't we all get along" moralism. While gay-activist groups howled about straights getting the lead roles in To Wong Foo, in the end the filmmakers really couldn't have done better than this trio of actors. John Leguziamo provides real sass and bite as a Latino (or should we saw Latina?) drag queen, and Wesley Snipes is surprisingly fierce as the imposing leader of the pack. Saddled with a cloying Southern accent and off-kilter wig, Patrick Swayze barely holds his own with his costars, though. To Wong Foo is best viewed as a cultural artifact of a time when it seemed as though drag could rule all tomorrow's parties. --Ethan Brown
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THE MOVIE THAT KILLED THREE CAREERS - Reviewed on 2008-07-27
3 customers found this review not to be helpful.
Ah yes, the movie that killed three careers. Wesley Snipes was a respected action man until he put on a dress in this movie. Same with Swayze. Leguizamo is at least a comic, but when was the last time you saw him in anything either. Now I know Swayze is sick, so I'm not bashing him. Just being honest. If you want to maintain your reputation as a leading man DO NOT put on a dress. Swayze himself was quoted as feeling very bitter over the reaction to this movie. "I don't care what people think of me anymore", he once angrily declared. Wearing a dress will do that to you. Men... be MEN. Draw the line at certain things. Arnold put his film career in a tailspin when he got pregnant in a movie!!! Before long, he experienced his own End of Days, and switched into politics. I can't think of more than two male actors who can wear a dress and still maintain some "cool" about them. Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence. Outside of those two actors, you're a fool to wear a dress on the bigsceen. Imagine Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery, Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington, Harrison Ford, Al Pacino, John Travolta, etc. wearing dresses!!! Maybe the three actors in this movie would be amoung those names if they had not made this turkey of a movie, and forever ruined their images as leading men.
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- Adult Humor
- Adult Language
- Adult Situations
- Buddy Film
- Color
- Comedies
- Comedy
- Comedy Drama
- Comedy Video
- English
- Feature
- Feature Film-comedy
- Gay & Lesbian Films
- Gay and Lesbian
- Gender-Bending
- Humorous
- Irreverent
- Madcap
- Mild Violence
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