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Connie and Carla (2004)
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Reviews Counted:119
Fresh:52
Rotten:67
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: The two female leads, as well as energitic musical numbers, enliven an otherwise silly reworking of Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot.
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Comedies
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... 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]
Starring: Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette, David Duchovny, Stephen Spinella
Starring: Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette, David Duchovny, Stephen Spinella, Dash Mihok, Debbie Reynolds, Alec Mapa
Director: Michael Lembeck
Director: Michael Lembeck
Screenwriter: Nia Vardalos
Producer: Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, Jonathan Glickman
Composer: Randy Edelman
Studio: Universal Pictures
Reviews for Connie and Carla
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.
This dreary little misfire is as stale as the cabaret routines that it tries to both make sport of and to glamorize
There doesn’t seem to be much here that comedy director Michael Lembeck could save; it's a lopsided script laced with flat-footed humor and lazy characterization.
A penny-dreadful imitation of one of Hollywood's most inimitable comedies.
There are funny moments ... but the film grows progressively more dispirited.
For all of Wedding's mediocrity, Connie and Carla is even more of a drag.
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