To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
Two elite drag queens from Manhattan are stranded in a small town after they were travelling cross country and they had just secured seats in the Nationals, LA. They are accompanied by a loser of the seats as well.
7 November 1972, San Diego, California, USA
27 November 1968, Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
13 October 1939, Hope, Arkansas, USA
12 December 1923, San Francisco, California, USA
22 July 1964, Bogotá, Colombia
27 March 1959, Bayamon, Puerto Rico
June 12, 2013
For all its message about self-discovery and self-respect, this is really a 100-minute opportunity to titter at hunks in heels.
February 16, 2003
No, it's not all that good, but it's too good hearted to dislike.
May 20, 2003
Kidron's direction stays flat even when the actors are funny. It doesn't help that the screenplay, by Douglas Carter Beane, is so thin that one of its biggest events is the three main characters' having car trouble.
January 01, 2000
The best thing about this movie is all the free advice it offers. As Vida warns before she leaves town, "Believe in yourself, and moisturize - this I cannot stress enough."
January 01, 2000
Improbable as this all sounds, "Wong Foo" is a great deal of fun and a small step forward in Hollywood's depiction of homosexuals.
February 09, 2006
Leguizamo's Chi Chi is the only one who looks anything like a drag queen, let alone a woman; yet we are asked to believe that it's Swayze's breathy Vida and Snipes' squealing Noxeema who've got their stocking seams straight.
January 01, 2000
It's a glam-o-rama party until the trio hits the road. Suddenly, Wong Foo is all cross-dressed with no place to go -- but down.
June 18, 2002
Imagine, "Wong Foo" suggests, a world where people stopped judging one another and simply surrendered to the silliness that's dormant inside us.
October 20, 2005
I was turned on, and it really confused me.
January 01, 2000
For some, the film's unabashed sentimentality and fairy-tale quality may go too far, but To Wong Foo is such a delight that it's easy to overlook the few awkward moments.
December 31, 2006
A politically correct comedy about drag queens? This is the American response to the superior Aussie flick Adventures of Priscilla. Macho Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, and John Leguizamo can't lift it above the routine.
June 05, 2002
Carried on the strong shoulders of its protagonists, scene-stealers all, the film succeeds in being fun and even touching, though the story itself is somewhat thin and cliched.
