To Wong Foo, thanks for everything, Julie Newmar / Universal Pictures presents an Amblin Entertainment production ; a Beeban Kidron film ; written by Douglas Carter Beane ; produced by G. Mac Brown ; directed by Beeban Kidron.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 20021 | UniversalLanguage: English, Spanish, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Edition: WidescreenDescription: 1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 0783219679
- 9780783219677
- Music, Rachel Portman ; associate producer, Mitchell Kohn ; costume designer, Marlene Stewart ; choreography, Kenny Ortega ; editor, Andrew Mondshein ; production designer, Wynn Thomas ; director of photography, Steve Mason ; executive producer, Bruce Cohen.
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Main Library | DVD | COMEDY To Wong | Available | 33111009527827 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Patrick Swayze plays Vida Boheme, a classy and long-reigning drag queen. With his understudy Noxeema Jackson (Wesley Snipes), Vida wins a New York drag stage contest and an all-expenses-paid trip to Hollywood. But when Miss Chi Chi Rodriguez (John Leguizamo) cries at having lost the contest, soft-hearted Vida cashes in the airline tickets so the three of them can take a car out West. The film becomes a strange sort of buddy road movie, with the three cross-dressers traveling across the American heartland in a shiny yellow Cadillac. First they tangle with Sheriff Dollard (Chris Penn). He stops them for a minor traffic violation, puts the moves on Vida, and Vida knocks him out, so they flee. Later, they are stranded by car problems in a small town in Nebraska. Renting a room in a hotel, they put some life into the town and its annual strawberry festival. They provide a mousy local woman, Carol Ann (Stockard Channing), with new role models of assertiveness. They also insist on chivalrous treatment from the local good old boys and give lessons on courting to a teenage girl. This film was released on the heels of the more outrageous Australian film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, which featured Terence Stamp as a drag queen. ~ Michael Betzold, Rovi
DVD, region 1; NTSC ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1).
In English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish with optional English captions for the hearing impaired.
Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo, Stockard Channing, Blythe Danner, Arliss Howard, Jason London, Chris Penn, Melinda Dillon, Beth Grant, Marceline Hugot, Alice Drummond, Jennifer Milmore, Jamie Harrold, Mike Hodge, Michael Vartan, Ru Paul, Julie Newmar.
Music, Rachel Portman ; associate producer, Mitchell Kohn ; costume designer, Marlene Stewart ; choreography, Kenny Ortega ; editor, Andrew Mondshein ; production designer, Wynn Thomas ; director of photography, Steve Mason ; executive producer, Bruce Cohen.
Originally released as motion picture in 1995.
Wide screen (1.85:1).
Rated PG-13.
En route from New York City to Hollywood for a drag queen beauty pageant, Noxeema, Vida and Chi Chi are stranded in a tiny Midwestern town when their 1967 Cadillac breaks down. When their glitz and glamour wake up the sleepy local citizens, the stage is set for an outrageously funny weekend.
Includes deleted scenes.
For private home use only.