When their car breaks down in a middle-of-nowhere town, they spend a weekend gussying up its women and strong-arming its men into line, fostering connections across race, class, and gender lines like fairy godmothers of the Dust Bowl. ![]() Written by playwright Douglas Carter Beane, the road-trip caper follows Swayze’s maternal Vida, Snipes’ sardonic Noxeema, and their tag-along turned protégé Chi-Chi (a role written specifically for John Leguizamo) from Manhattan to Hollywood to compete for Drag Queen of the Year. Though the sweet, wise-cracking comedy hardly deals in polemics, To Wong Foo marks a watershed moment in queer representation on screen, as a studio movie headlined by major stars - not just playing gay, but in heels - that topped the box office in its first two weeks.
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