To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

Original title: To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar

1995
PG-13
1h 49m

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

38K

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POPULARITY

3,780

John Leguizamo, Wesley Snipes, and Patrick Swayze in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)

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Road Trip Comedy Drama

Three drag queens travel cross-country until their car breaks down, leaving them stranded in a small town.Three drag queens travel cross-country until their car breaks down, leaving them stranded in a small town.Three drag queens travel cross-country until their car breaks down, leaving them stranded in a small town.

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

38K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

3,780

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 3 nominations

Trivia
Wong Foo, or "Fooey" as his friends called him, was the head bartender at the China Bowl restaurant. It was on 152 west 44th Street east of Broadway and closed in 1993. The walls of the restaurant were covered with head shots of famous actors and actresses who had stopped by the place.

Goofs
Vida gives the clerk in the general store a paperback edition of Diana Vreeland's memoirs; moments later, the clerk is leafing through a hardback edition of that book.

Quotes
Noxeema Jackson: When a straight man puts on a dress and gets his sexual kicks, he is a transvestite. When a man is a woman trapped in a man's body and has a little operation he is a Transsexual.
Miss Chi-Chi Rodriguez: I know that.
Noxeema Jackson: When a gay man has way too much fashion sense for one gender he is a drag queen.
Vida Boheme: Thank you.
Noxeema Jackson: And when a tired little Latin boy puts on a dress, he is simply a boy in a dress!

Crazy credits
"The characters and events depicted in this photoplay are fictitious: any similarity to actual person, living or dead, is purely coincidental. In particular, the character named "Chi Chi Rodriguez" was not based upon or authorized by the professional golfer of that name."

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar/Magic in the Water/The Innocent/Last of the Dogmen/Truman (1995)

Soundtracks
Body Beautiful
Written by Bernadette Cooper
Rap by Cheryl 'Salt' James
Performed by Salt-N-Pepa featuring Bernadette Cooper
Salt-N-Pepa appears courtesy of London Records and Noise in the Attic Productions

User reviews153

Review

Featured review

9/10

Try to describe,and not use the word statuesque

I LOVED this movie.We were at best buy,I saw it,and bought it on this simple premise-Patrick Swayze in drag.And it looked like a good movie. So I went home,popped it in,and literally laughed out loud.There's something in this drag queen movies,that makes it almost not offensive.I was afraid it would be bad,(We're Christian)but honestly,I wasn;t offended.

The movie was so good,so sweet,so down right hysterical at times,I almost forgot Patrick swayze was a man.He could have easily blended into our church.

The film starts out With PS and WS getting ready.That scene in itself is hysterical,because we see these rugged,masculine men-Putting on heels and stockings and makeup.WS,at one point,kicks his legs and squeals with delight.

They go to the Drag queen of the year award,WS and PS tie,and ge to go to Hollywood.But when the little"Latin boy in drag is crying"they decide to string him along,and they get stuck in podunk town.

There's a Cameo from Robin Williams thats excellent,And the townswomen are so sweet.and Noxeema(snipes)Befriends a little 4'9,80 pound elderly women.

Cant get any beter than that