To Wong Foo, (1995)

Director: Beeban Kidron

Leading Actors: Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo

Reviewed By: Blue Moon
Review Date: January 21, 2012
Category: Comedy, Queer
Fetishes/Kinks Found Within: Crossdressing

Back Cover Summary:

After jointly winning a local drag queen pageant in New York City, Noxeema Jackson and Vida Boheme 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 contestants, Chi-Chi Rodriguez, 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 or Los Angeles...

Reviewer Comments on Rating:

This film is light and fun and leaves you feeling good. Not to mention seeing Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze and John Leguizamo in a dress. This film does put homosexuals in a somewhat negative light to begin with. It plays on some queer and non queer stereotypes but every character grows and changes through the story, for better or worse. The three main characters truly complement each other and at several moments I forget that they are male. Snipes and Swayze play off each other quite well and I feel like it could almost be a family unit. I love it!

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