The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)

7.2	Listal rating
7.3	IMDB rating

Directed by

Stephan Elliott

Starring (View all)

Hugo Weaving

Anthony 'Tick' Belrose / Mitzi Del Bra

Guy Pearce

Adam Whitely / Felicia Jollygoodfellow

Terence Stamp

Ralph Waite / Bernadette Bassenger

Rebel Penfold-Russell

Logowoman

John Casey

Bartender

June Marie Bennett

Shirley

Murray Davies

Miner

Frank Cornelius

Piano Player

Written by

Stephan Elliott

(written by)

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Warm, amusing celebration of diversity

3 years, 2 months ago at Feb 27 3:53

PvtCaboose91

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"A desert holiday, let's pack the drag away. You take the lunch and tea, I'll take the ecstasy. Fuck off you silly queer, I'm getting out of here."

Written and directed by real-life drag queen Stephan Elliott, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is an unflinching depiction of the behind-the-scenes happenings of a drag show. It exposes the lifestyle of drag queens, on to... read more

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2 months, 3 weeks ago at Feb 25 7:52

Happy Vader

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In the wood known as Holly, the comedy genre has by far flirted with other genres the most. The word "comedy" has nowadays - or at least to me - become a very feared prefix; comedy-horror, comedy-drama, comedy-war etc... From the comedy field, I've found many to be worthless, not the least bit amusing, and downright either pretentious or ugly - with such examples like poking fun of someone "errati... read more

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Description: Two drag-queens (Anthony/Mitzi and Adam/Felicia) and a transexual (Bernadette) contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a resort town in the remote Australian desert. They head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla. En route, it is discovered that the woman they've contracted with is Anthony's wife ... (more)

Release date : 10 August 1994
UPC: 027616840929

Comedy (17), Drama (14), Australian (9), Australia (7), 1990s (7), Road Trip (7), Drag Queens (7), 1994 (6), Music (6), Desert (5), Musical (5), Glbt (5), Gay (4), Cabaret (4), Bus (3), Ping Pong Ball (3), Drag Queen (3), Homosexual (3), 1990's (2), 90s (2)

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“In the wood known as Holly, the comedy genre has by far flirted with other genres the most. The word "comedy" has nowadays - or at least to me - become a very feared prefix; comedy-horror, comedy-drama, comedy-war etc... From the comedy field, I've found many to be worthless, not the least bit amusing, and downright either pretentious or ugly - with such examples like poking fun of someone "erratic", a religion, a nationality, an accent, or the dude who just walks teensy bit funny, resulting in 99% of unfunny gags, offensive moments and just downright stupidity. For the sake of this (argument?), I will rule out parody / spoof movies, so no Mel Brooks reference here. Or ZAZ. By comedy I'm taking examples from all decades. The old comedies may seem innocent, smart and witty, but there's a lo” read more

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" Check out my review: http://www.listal.com/viewentry/3884506 Anyway, why did I bring up this issue? Because Priscilla is sans all that. Priscilla is a great - no, scratch that - classic comedy-drama that excels in both of the fields either side of the hyphen, first making your eyes tear with laughter and then with (wo)manly emotional scenes, that will not necessarily make you cry a la Terms of Endearment mode but in a Dan in Real Life or Adaptation manner. Two drag queens and a transsexual "

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