To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)

IMDb plot summary: Three drag queens travel cross-country until their car breaks down, leaving them stranded in a small town.
Directed by Beeban Kidron. Starring Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo, and Stockard Channing.

...I maybe super love this? It hits a really fascinating note between unbridled optimism about humanity and touching on the more serious aspects of homophobia -- though many of those get resolved much more neatly than they would in real life. It almost functions as a sort of power fantasy about the ideal world for these women to live in -- one where they are accepted and all the jerks are either run out of town or turn into good people at the end. It's light and fluffy and functions largely on the incredible performances of its three leads. I keep going back and forth on which one I liked the most, but they're all stellar and create such wonderful characters. I'm sure there are problematic things to be found in here, it's a movie from the 90s, but I found myself entirely enraptured with these ladies and their journey, and it was just nice to see a movie where everything works out for all the LGBT folks. That still doesn't happen very often on film and even less in the 90s, so I love when it does.

How it entered my Flickchart:
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar > The Princess Diaries
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar > Kubo and the Two Strings
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar > Vertigo
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar < Amahl and the Night Visitors
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar < Nativity!
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar > The Kindergarten Teacher
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar < Annihilation
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar > A Simple Plan
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar > (500) Days of Summer
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar > Once
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar > Pirate Radio
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar < Stranger Than Fiction
Final spot: #312 out of 3057.