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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen
of the Desert was an Australian comedy film, made in 1994 and directed
by Stephen Elliott, which quickly became a cult classic among the gay community.
The film relates the sometimes bittersweet and often hilarious adventures
of two drag queens (The Matrix's Hugo Weaving, L.A. Confidential
's Guy Pearce) and a transsexual (played by Terence Stamp of Billy
Budd fame) as they journey from Sydney across Australia in a motorcoach,
dubbed "Priscilla," en route to a performance at an Alice Springs resort,
where one of the drag queens has both an ex-girlfriend and a son waiting
to meet him. The film is especially noteworthy for its soundtrack,
replete with classic disco and ABBA tunes, and includes a poignant commentary
by Terence Stamp's Bernadette (a.k.a. "Ralph") on how the gay ghettos in
cities like Sydney act as safe havens for gays after Guy Pearce's Adam
/ Felicia is the victim of a gay-bashing during a stop-over in an Outback
mining town. Priscilla was one of the first mainstream films to give
a sympathetic and non-exploitive glimpse into the drag sub-culture.
An American version,
To
Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar,
was made the following year.
Links: Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The (1994) at Internet Movie Database Filmbug: Movies: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Open Directory - Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
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