The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Three queens, a bus, and the entire Australian outback.
Costume design as a personality. Loses half a rainbow for a couple of dated beats.
- 1994
- 103 min
- 94% on Rotten Tomatoes
- 7.5 on IMDb
- #nostalgic
- #comedy
- #trans
Our take
Two drag queens and a trans woman drive a lavender bus across the desert to a casino gig, and somewhere between the flip-flop dress and the thong-clad mining town, it becomes one of the warmest films about chosen family ever made. Terence Stamp as Bernadette is the whole thing — dry as the landscape, never once played for a joke.
The soundtrack invented a certain kind of gay party and the costumes won an Oscar on a budget that would embarrass a music video. A few gags have aged badly. The bus, in silver heels, on top of a rock, in the middle of nowhere, has not aged at all.
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Scores
Ours
- Jibbi Score — 4.5 out of 5 rainbows. Costume design as a personality. Loses half a rainbow for a couple of dated beats.
Everyone else’s
- Rotten Tomatoes — 94%, via OMDb.
- IMDb — 7.5 out of 10 from 60,452 votes, via OMDb.
- Metacritic — 70 out of 100, via OMDb.
- TMDB — 7.3 out of 10 from 935 votes, refreshed daily.
The plot, officially
Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.
Synopsis and poster via TMDB.