Pride Month 2025: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995) 30th Anniversary
Director: Beeban Kidron Run Time: 109 min. Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 1995
Starring: Blythe Danner, John Leguizamo, Patrick Swayze, Stockard Channing, Wesley Snipes
Country: United States
Language: English
About the film:
Co-curated by Columbus icon Nina West and Gateway Film Foundation CEO Chris Hamel, the Film Center is proud to present our 2025 Pride Month Program!
Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When the two meet pathetic drag novice Chi-Chi Rodriguez — one of the losers that evening — the charmed Vida and Noxeema agree to take the hopeless youngster under their joined wing. Soon the three set off on a madcap road trip across America and struggle to make it to Los Angeles in time.
About the filmmaker:
Before taking up her seat in the House of Lords in 2012, Baroness Kidron spent 30 years as an award-winning film maker. After a childhood illness left her unable to speak, at the age of eleven, Kidron was given a camera by photographer Fay Godwin. She took photographs throughout the rest of her childhood.
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