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Bookmark this pageFranchesca Page (1997)
Director: Kelley Sane
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From Time Out Film Guide
The faux Almodóvar opening credits are pretty fab, but from then on this cross-dressing NY frolic entertains only fitfully. The problem isn't in Jeff Robertson's central turn as fun-sized drag queen Varla Jean Merman, who makes the late Divine look like a wilting flower. It's in the plot line spun around her (romance, ambition and murder behind the scenes of an off-off-off-Broadway disco extravaganza, 'The Lady Does It All'), the director's timing of the sundry catty one-liners, and the enthusiastic, but distinctly amateur-hour supporting cast. For indulgent connoisseurs of high camp.Author: TJ
Cast & crew
Director: Kelley Sane
Producer: Pietro Cuevas, Mark E Downie
Cast: Varla Jean Merman, Rossy de Palma, Tara Leon, Mark Dendy, Linda Smith, Leigh Rose, Marc Cunningham full cast
Duration: 92 mins
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