- Status: Completed
- Score: 6.6/10
- Director: Beeban Kidron
- Country: EnglishFrenchItalian
- Year: 1995
- Duration: 109 min
- Genres: Comedy,Drama,
- Production:
Three drag queens travel cross-country until their car breaks down, leaving them stranded in a small town.
After jointly winning a local Drag Queen pageant in New York City, Noxeema Jackson (Wesley Snipes) and Vida Boheme (Patrick Swayze) win the right and are given the round trip airfare to compete in the Drag Queen of America pageant in Hollywood, California. Noxeema sees herself as the next Dorothy Dandridge, who bucked the trend of most black American movie actresses of her time by never playing the slave house maid. Vida’s style reflects her past of growing up in upper class suburban Pennsylvania. One of their fellow New York City contestants, Chi-Chi Rodriguez (John Leguizamo), is a straight-talking, but naive and inexperienced Drag Queen. Seeing that Chi-Chi needs some Drag Queen confidence (despite her bravada), Vida and a reluctant Noxeema decide to cash in their plane tickets and buy an older model Cadillac convertible and drive to Hollywood with Chi-Chi. Their drive takes them through much of the country where alternate lifestyles are less tolerated than they may be in New York …
Wesley Snipes, John Leguizamo, Blythe Danner, Jason London, Melinda Dillon, Alice Drummond, Jennifer Milmore, Mike Hodge, Patrick Swayze, Stockard Channing, Arliss Howard, Chris Penn, Beth Grant, Marceline Hugot, Jamie Harrold,
