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This hip, classy movie is about 2 drag queens, Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson, who win a New York drag stage contest and an all-expenses-paid trip to Hollywood. But when Miss Chi Chi Rodriguez 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 women traveling across the American heartland in a shiny yellow Cadillac. Facing many conquests, first they tangle with Sheriff Dollard, who stops them for a minor traffic violation, trys to make moves on Vida, discovering she is a drag queen. So the 3 are able to escape the creep, when Vida knocks him out unconcious. Later, they are stranded by car problems in a small town in Nebraska. While renting a room in a hotel, they put some life into the town. They provide assertiveness, and also insist on chivalrous treatment from the local good old boys and give lessons on courting women.
Director:
Beeban Kidron
Original Release Date:
1995
Cast :
Wesley Snipes - Noxeema Jackson
Patrick Swayze - Vida Boheme
John Leguizamo - Miss Chi-Chi Rodriguez
Stockard Channing - Carol Ann
Naomi Campbell - Girl
Jason London - Bobby Ray
Julie Newmar - Herself
Chris Penn - Sheriff Dollard
RuPaul - Miss Rachel Tensions
Michael Vartan - Tommy
Robin Williams - John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
Director Beeban Kidron on location in Loma, Nebraska.
Director Beeban Kidron on the Loma, Nebraska set with the cast.