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When a pre-Hollywood Guy Pierce steps out of Priscilla (the so-named bus) wearing a dress made of pink and blue flip flops, I fell off my chair in fits of laughter.

This film came out of Austrailia just before "To Wong Fu, Thanks for Everything, Love Julie Newmar" and is, well, darn it, just 100 times better at a similar theme (picture a Bob Hope/Bing Crosby road movie, with the characters all in drag).

The funny lines are hilarious. The acting superb (Oscar winner Terrence Stamp plays a post operative transsexual for heaven's sake!).

Pre-Matrix Hugo Weaving must perform a drag show for his ex-wife (real woman). He takes along pre-L.A. Confidential and Memento Guy Pierce, and post Billy Bud/Superman II Terrance Stamp to assist. The three purchase a bus and drive across Austrailia meeting an assortment of characters, both pleasant and unpleasant (the bar scene in their first hotel is an absolute scream!).

You must see this film!

Even If You Don't Like Drag Shows, You'll Love This Movie
This outrageous movie gets an A in every category: acting, directing, costumes and music too. Three girls leave The Imperial Hotel, a real drag bar in Sydney with the worst drag show I have ever seen to do a gig in Alice Springs, deep in the Australian outback. We have two drag queens, Hugo Weaving, who has reproduced himself, Guy Pearce-- I didn't recognize him in L.A. Confidential after seeing him in this one-- and a transgendered "real" woman played by Terrence Stamp. Supposedly Stamp who wasn't allowed to see any of the movie footage before
the film was released thought he really made a beautiful woman. Poor baby. He looks for all the world like a tired, older butcher cousin of Judy Collins. Perhaps it's those beautiful blue eyes. He's a long way from FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD here.

This trio christen a tour bus "Priscilla" and begin their trip across Australia. Much of the movie is predictable, some of the lines shamelessly designed for easy laughs. But that's okay. The good girls eventually win as they should in every comedy.

If only Mel Gibson could have had a cameo role as one of the many roustabouts the girls encounter on their journey, roustabouts determined to harm these gentle creatures. Mr. Gibson could have played himself if we are to believe the negative comments about gay people attributed to him over the years.

my Favorite movie
Priscilla is one my favoraite movies of all time. I saw this movie in the theaters when it came out. I still roll with laughter every time I see this movie. Whenever I discover that a friend of mine hasn't seen it I invite them over to watch. They have all loved the film also. Hugo Weaving takes is friends and "fellow" drag queens Guy Pierce and Terence Stamp, on a bus trip trough central Australia to perform in a casino owned by his lesbian wife. During the long trip through the middle of no where, they encounter bigoted miners and tolerant aborigonies as well as a mechanic with a mail order asian bride who used to be a stripper. To many Abba songs while wearing very purposefully tacky costumes. A MUST SEE!!