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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

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 24 2006 03:20 AM

Time Out

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Matthew Turner

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 12 2004 08:22 AM

ViewLondon

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2/5

Anna Smith

A good-natured but self-indulgent camp comedy lacking in originality, character and comic timing.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 11 2004 08:16 AM

Empire Magazine

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James Christopher

Full marks for trying a radical change of direction, and nul points for inflicting the ghastly mess on us

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 09 2004 11:30 AM

Times [UK]

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James Christopher

Full marks for trying a radical change of direction, and nul points for inflicting the ghastly mess on us

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 09 2004 11:29 AM

Times [UK]

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2/5

Nev Pierce

Plays like a bargain basement Some Like It Hot.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 08 2004 08:16 AM

BBC

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4/5

Rich Cline

The film's real joy comes in its camp performance pieces, which outrageously poke fun at the guilty pleasures of musical theatre.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 01 2004 10:40 AM

Shadows on the Wall

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Cole Smithey

For audiences who adored "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," Nia Vardalos' follow up movie (she wrote both scripts) will come as a big fat letdown.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 06 2009 08:23 AM

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2/5

Mark Halverson

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 07 2008 03:15 AM

Sacramento News & Review

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1.5/4

Lisa Ann Cockrel

The movie does offer some genuine guffaws as it trips over itself to be all things to all people.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 11 2006 01:50 PM

Christianity Today

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jul., 21 2005 03:22 AM

Houston Chronicle

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2/5

Pablo Villaca

muitos espectadores talvez julguem melhor economizar o dinheiro do ingresso do cinema, utilizando-o para comprar o CD do filme.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 13 2004 03:25 AM

Cinema em Cena

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David Noh

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 08 2004 08:28 AM

Film Journal International

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1/5

Harry Guerin

Some like it lukewarm? Well, they're welcome to it.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 05 2004 06:37 AM

RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

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2/5

Jake Euker

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 08 2004 09:31 PM

F5 (Wichita, KS)

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Karina Montgomery

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!

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 18 2004 11:37 AM

Cinerina

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Martin Scribbs

What Connie and Carla has to teach us about gay people.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 03 2004 09:12 PM

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Kimberly Jones

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Austin Chronicle

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Bruce Bennett

“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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Apr., 26 2004 03:58 PM

Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

 
 
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