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6.4/10 • 63

2020-07-241h 33m

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Sex, drag and rock & roll

A conservative church-choir director moves from Texas to San Francisco to run her deceased gay son's drag club.

Directors
Thom Fitzgerald
Writters
Brad Hennig
Editors
Angela Baker

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  1. Jacki Weaver

    Jacki Weaver

    Maybelline Metcalf

  2. Lucy Liu

    Lucy Liu

    Sienna

  3. Adrian Grenier

    Adrian Grenier

    Nathan

  4. Mya Taylor

    Mya Taylor

    Cherry

  5. Allister MacDonald

    Allister MacDonald

    Joan

  6. Anthony Skordi

    Anthony Skordi

    August

  7. Oscar Moreno

    Oscar Moreno

    Tequila

  8. Jackie Beat

    Jackie Beat

    Dusty Muffin

  9. Hugh Thompson

    Hugh Thompson

    Jeb

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CinemaSerf

Mar 27, 2022

6/10

Jacki Weaver is "Maybeline", a pretty conservative Texan woman who discovers that her estranged, gay, son has died of an overdose in San Francisco. Despite the protestations of her husband "Jeb" she heads off to the funeral and begins to discover just how ("Ricky"), long-term boyfriend "Nathan" (Adrian Grenier) and best friend "Sienna" (Lucy Liu) have been living their lives - and of how he and "Nathan" had been running their own drag club. Initially she faces scepticism and hostility from all but "Sienna" - who sees an opportunity for a free babysitter - particularly as it transpires that her son had no will and so everything he had now belongs to her. Her husband just wants to sell it all, but she decides to try and make a go of it; and to make friends with the folks her son loved. It's a kindly, feel-good film with a gentle, if slightly sweet, storyline peppered with some good old drag innuendo and cattiness. The songs are a bit on the cheesy side, but that doesn't really matter. Essentially, this is a film about regret and having the balls to do something about it - part of her determination to make a success of the club and of the acts is driven by guilt, but much of it is also driven by her own pent-up frustrations having been stuck in a banal marriage that had managed to suffocate much of the personality in her that her late son had managed to manifest in his own life. It's not a great film, at times the production borders on the amateur, but Liu and Weaver deliver engaging characters quite well and I rather enjoyed it.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
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Keywords
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