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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
1994Comedy · Road Movie103 min
Costume design as a personality. Loses half a rainbow for a couple of dated beats.
Three queens, a bus, and the entire Australian outback.
Our take
Two drag queens and a trans woman drive a lavender bus across the desert to a casino gig, and somewhere between the flip-flop dress and the thong-clad mining town, it becomes one of the warmest films about chosen family ever made. Terence Stamp as Bernadette is the whole thing — dry as the landscape, never once played for a joke.
The soundtrack invented a certain kind of gay party and the costumes won an Oscar on a budget that would embarrass a music video. A few gags have aged badly. The bus, in silver heels, on top of a rock, in the middle of nowhere, has not aged at all.
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Jibbi Score — 4.5 out of 5 rainbows. Costume design as a personality. Loses half a rainbow for a couple of dated beats.
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- Rotten Tomatoes — 94%, as recorded on Wikidata — Rotten Tomatoes has no public API, so this is the openly licensed figure rather than a live reading.
- TMDB — 7.3 out of 10 from 962 votes, refreshed daily.
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The plot, officially
Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.
Synopsis and poster via TMDB.
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