To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

UPC: 025192002120

Studio: Universal Studios

MPAA Rating: PG13   Contains:[Mild Violence, Adult Situations, Adult Language, Adult Humor]

Summary: 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

Category: Comedy Drama

Awards: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Features: ccDeleted scenes

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

Format: DVD

Release Date: 01/07/2003

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 109 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 --
1. Ready or Not (Main Titles)
2. The Drag Queen of the Year
3. The Little Latin Boy in Drag
4. Mr. John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
5. Bala Cynwyd
6. A Little Sanctuary
7. Sheriff Dullard
8. Welcome to Snydersville
9. The Locals
10. Virgil Likes His Way
11. No Spices
12. A Day With the Girls
13. How to Greet a Lady
14. Going Out With Mr. Bobby Ray
15. Hitting Back
16. Those are the Moves
17. I Am a Drag Queen
18. Statuesque in Snydersville
19. Just the Right Size
20. End Titles

Michael Costello

Men dressing in women's clothing has long been an axiom of comedy, and the trio of drag queens in Beeban Kidron's breezy comedy mines that basic fact for all it's worth. The script sends the unlikely queens, played by Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, and John Leguizamo, on a trip across the American heartland, where they encounter a number of people unfamiliar with their lifestyle choice. The comedy takes a fanciful turn, when, after being stranded in a small town in Nebraska, the drag crew, as if by magic, begins to reform the bad manners of the local men and improve the personal lives of some of the women, assimilating with amazing speed. Also fanciful is the film's decision to skirt the issue of the trio's sex lives, which might not have seemed so amusing to some viewers. In general, the three principals are so committed to their roles and queen it up with so much attitude, that it's impossible not to be entertained. ~ Michael Costello, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Alice Drummond  Actor 
Jerry Orbach  Actor 
Michael Vartan  Actor 
Jason London  Actor 
Jamie Harrold  Actor 
Joey Arias  Actor 
Mike Hodge  Actor 
Keith Reddin  Actor 
Marceline Hugot  Actor 
Naomi Campbell  Actor 
Quentin Crisp  Actor 
Robin Williams  Actor 
Melinda Dillon  Actor 
Julie Newmar  Actor 
RuPaul  Actor 
Beth Grant  Actor 
Chris Penn  Actor 
Bruce Cohen  Executive Producer 
Beeban Kidron  Director 
Rachel Portman  Composer (Music Score) 
Douglas Carter Beane  Screenwriter 
Wesley Snipes  Actor 
Patrick Swayze  Actor 
John Leguizamo  Actor 
Stockard Channing  Actor 
Blythe Danner  Actor 
Arliss Howard  Actor 

Country: USA