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Connie and Carla (2004)
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Synopsis: Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette and David Duchovny star in Spyglass Entertainment Production's comedy Connie and Carla. Vardalos and Collette play Connie and Carla, two struggling Chicago dinner theater performers who accidentally witness a mafia hit...and who subsequently hit the road,... Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette and David Duchovny star in Spyglass Entertainment Production's comedy Connie and Carla. Vardalos and Collette play Connie and Carla, two struggling Chicago dinner theater performers who accidentally witness a mafia hit...and who subsequently hit the road, running for their lives. Assuming the killers will never look for them in a place devoid of culture, the pair head to Los Angeles, where they assume new identities and find their middling talent at song and dance perfectly suited to new careers--as drag queens. Much to their surprise, they inadvertently become the toast of the cabaret circuit. As their ruse becomes increasingly difficult to maintain, they discover that it is indeed lonely at the top, especially after Connie meets Jeff (Duchovny), a guy she'd really like to be a real girl with. With the mafia zeroing in and the line separating their onstage/offstage personas blurring beyond the point of recognition, Connie and Carla soon discover the power of not compromising to pursue your dreams, fighting the good fight, and never, never underestimating the transformative power of cosmetics. The film is also scripted by Academy Award® - nominated screenwriter (and star of) My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Nia Vardalos. It is directed by Michael Lembeck (The Santa Clause 2) and produced by Spyglass' (Bruce Almighty, The Sixth Sense) Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber and Jonathan Glickman. Universal Pictures will distribute the film in the U.S. and Canada, with Spyglass distributing internationally. [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette, David Duchovny, Stephen Spinella, Dash Mihok
Screenwriter: Nia Vardalos
Producer: Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, Jonathan Glickman
Composer: Randy Edelman
Reviews
A good-natured but self-indulgent camp comedy lacking in originality, character and comic timing.
Full marks for trying a radical change of direction, and nul points for inflicting the ghastly mess on us
Full marks for trying a radical change of direction, and nul points for inflicting the ghastly mess on us
The film's real joy comes in its camp performance pieces, which outrageously poke fun at the guilty pleasures of musical theatre.
The movie does offer some genuine guffaws as it trips over itself to be all things to all people.
muitos espectadores talvez julguem melhor economizar o dinheiro do ingresso do cinema, utilizando-o para comprar o CD do filme.
Vardalos is a much better actress than she is a writer, and the patchy script has a desperate, thrown-together feeling to it, as if she had to scramble to come up with something after Wedding's gargantuan success.
There's some fun to be had here, but not quite enough, and the film is burdened by its tired message that drag queens are human beings too.
If you find meticulously staged, passionately sung anthems about love, beauty, truth, and joy to be tiresome, then don't drop a dime on this film. Otherwise GO!
“Big Fat Greek Wedding’s” huge success was a surprise to me and to Hollywood. It won’t have the mass appeal and will make only a fraction of the dough—but this film I get.
Nia Vardalos should have cut right to the chase and named the characters Lucy and Ethel.
Connie and Carla reminded me of two Whoopi Goldbergs in Sister Act, and I don’t mean that in a bad way.
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by: GopherKhan 4/27/04


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