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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
When drag queen Anthony (Hugo Weaving) agrees to take his act on the road, he invites fellow cross-dresser Adam (Guy Pearce) and transsexual Bernadette (Terence Stamp) to come along. Together they travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.
1957, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
11 August 1960
1967 in New South Wales, Australia
1967, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
27 February 1940, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
27 August 1964, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
January 09, 2002
The film builds an enormously affectionate tribute to a band of outsiders.
June 26, 2005
The best things in this transsexual comedy-melodrama are Lizzy Gardiner and Tim Chappel's colorful costumes, which deservedly won the Oscar, and Terrence Stamp's performance, snubbed by the Academy.
January 01, 2000
It's too bad that the requirements of plotting require movies like this to crank up the event count, when actually what works is just the daily minutiae of Bernadette's life.
December 30, 2002
You'll never look at The Matrix the same way again.
June 19, 2003
The casting of the film was a stroke of genius.
August 14, 2003
Both an unalloyed delight and a surprisingly human, moving film.
January 01, 2000
Bernadette -- formerly Ralph -- turns out to be an excellent role for Stamp.
January 29, 2003
Refreshing and fun.
January 01, 2000
The year's one clear candidate for future cult status.
July 10, 2007
Where else are you going to see General Zod, Agent Smith and the guy from Memento as drag queens stranded in the Australian Outback?
May 12, 2001
In this roaringly comic and powerfully affecting road movie, Terence Stamp gives one of the year's best performances.
June 17, 2004
Funny, extravangantly silly, and surprisingly poignant.