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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (DVD)

Terence Stamp (actor), Hugo Weaving (actor) and Stephan Elliott (director)


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Review

Rolling Stone, 08/25/94, p.97, "...In this roaringly comic and powerfully affecting road movie, Terence Stamp gives one of the year's best performances..."

Sight and Sound, 11/01/1994, p.38, "...The outfits, extravagant confections of satin and lace, galvanise the film..."

New York Times, 08/10/1994, p.C12, "...Enough to shake the kookaburras right out of the trees....[Old-fashioned] in its own outrageous, convention-flouting way..."

Chicago Sun-Times, 08/26/1994, p.51, "...The film settles into the rhythms of many road pictures, with lot of drive-by scenery, soul-searching talks during camp outs on the road, and dicey encounters with the locals..."

Entertainment Weekly, 03/31/1995, p.71, "...Stamp is wonderfully subtle as Bernadette -- a triumph of less being so much more." -- Rating: B+

Entertainment Weekly, 06/15/2007, p.67, "[The film] still has exuberance to spare..." -- Grade: B+

Ultimate DVD, 08/01/2007, p.113, 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] sparkly, sequined road movie..."

Variety, 05/09/1994, "...An amazing star turn by Terence Stamp....Also excellent are Weaving...and Pearce..."

Premiere, 04/01/1995, p.147, "...The ultimate fish-out-of-water comedy..." - Recommended

Release Note

DVD Features:

Keep Case
Widescreen
Audio:
Mono - French, Spanish
DTS 5.1 - English
Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Alternate Scenes - Deleted Scenes (4)
Audio Commentary - Stephan Elliot - Director
Behind the Scenes - Tidbits from the Set (13)
Featurettes - "Birth of a Queen"
Outtakes - Blooper Reel - "The Bus from Blooperville"
Trailers - 1. Theatrical Trailer
2. Theatrical Teaser Trailer
Text/Photo Galleries:
Stills/Photos - Fabulous Photo Gallery

DVD Features:

Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
DTS 5.1 - English
Mono - French, Spanish
Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Featurette: "Birth of a Queen"
Outtakes: Blooper Reel - "The Bus from Blooperville"
Alternate Scenes: Deleted Scenes (4)
Audio Commentary: Stephan Elliot - Director
Behind the Scenes: Tidbits from the Set (13)
Trailers:
1. Theatrical Trailer
2. Theatrical Teaser Trailer
Text/Photo Galleries:
Stills/Photos: Fabulous Photo Gallery

Product Notes

Stephan Elliott (EYE OF THE BEHOLDER) wrote and directed this tale of two drag queens and a transsexual that embark on a road trip to a remote resort town in the Australian desert on a bus christened Priscilla. When Anthony "Tick"/Mitzi (Hugo Weaving) is invited to perform in Alice Springs, he recruits flamboyant young stud Adam/Felicia (Guy Pearce) and the legendary, refined Bernadette (Terence Stamp) to join him. Mitzi, however, fails to disclose one important fact to his friends: his wife is the one who invited them to Alice Springs. With one big secret about to be revealed and another one up his sleeve, Mitzi is a little stressed.

With long hours on the road ahead of them, the trio lip-synchs campy songs on the bus, creates fabulous costumes, and meets a multitude of colorful characters along the way. They party with friendly aborigines, are confronted by judgmental townspeople who are averse to drag queens, and meet Bob (Bill Hunter), a warmhearted mechanic and drag fan who joins them for the last leg of their trip when their bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Fantastic costumes and fabulous makeup abound, and fine performances are delivered all around. But perhaps most important are the implicit messages that families come in all forms, that friends can make a family, and that love really knows no boundaries.



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