To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Three drag queens travel cross-country until their car breaks down, leaving them stranded in a small town.Three drag queens travel cross-country until their car breaks down, leaving them stranded in a small town.Three drag queens travel cross-country until their car breaks down, leaving them stranded in a small town.
- Awards
- 3 nominations
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWong Foo, or "Fooey" as his friends called him, was the head bartender at the China Bowl restaurant. It was on 152 west 44th Street east of Broadway and closed in 1993. The walls of the restaurant were covered with head shots of famous actors and actresses who had stopped by the place.
- GoofsVida gives the clerk in the general store a paperback edition of Diana Vreeland's memoirs; moments later, the clerk is leafing through a hardback edition of that book.
- Quotes
Noxeema Jackson: When a straight man puts on a dress and gets his sexual kicks, he is a transvestite. When a man is a woman trapped in a man's body and has a little operation he is a Transsexual.
Miss Chi-Chi Rodriguez: I know that.
Noxeema Jackson: When a gay man has way too much fashion sense for one gender he is a drag queen.
Vida Boheme: Thank you.
Noxeema Jackson: And when a tired little Latin boy puts on a dress, he is simply a boy in a dress!
- Crazy credits"The characters and events depicted in this photoplay are fictitious: any similarity to actual person, living or dead, is purely coincidental. In particular, the character named "Chi Chi Rodriguez" was not based upon or authorized by the professional golfer of that name."
- SoundtracksBody Beautiful
Written by Bernadette Cooper
Rap by Cheryl 'Salt' James
Performed by Salt-N-Pepa featuring Bernadette Cooper
Salt-N-Pepa appears courtesy of London Records and Noise in the Attic Productions
It's a fantasy with a firm hold in reality. The leads portray three human beings that must confront what society deals them, and in the film, they manage to make some of their dreams come true. Unlike other movies dealing with special types of love, such as "Beautiful Thing" and "Big Eden" where the ending perfectly matches the rest of the fantasy, this one faces reality and offers an interesting type of compromise. It's bittersweet, expertly interweaving both the possible and impossible.
Leguizamo shines as the very caliente latina persona who lives dangerously and tries to fit in, in her own special way. Swayze is the classy one, who is not allowed to forget her true nature. Wesley Snipes' role borders on caricature, but he keeps it from crossing the line between farcical and ridiculous. They all do very good work with this very risqué and difficult material. It works out.
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $30,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $36,474,193
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $9,019,180
- Sep 10, 1995
- Gross worldwide
- $47,774,193
- Runtime1 hour 49 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1