A mob mix-up in Chicago sends two chanteuses screaming for L.A., where they score a perfect gig: posing as drag queens on the dinner theater/cabaret circuit. Things get extra-weird when a guy falls for one of the girls.
Director: Michael Lembeck
Stars: Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette, David Duchovny.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0345074/
Watched online, poor print.
24 songs in the Soundtracks, (probably) all showtunes.
An updated version of Some Like It Hot ('59), not nearly so funny, but better than you might expect.
One of the issues dealt with: one of the real drag queens has a straight brother who's trying to reconcile with him. They've been separated since the younger bro was preteen, and didn't even know the parents kicked older bro from the house. But younger bro is not adapting to the drag + homosexual thing at all, and is doubly weirded out by being attracted to (and pursued by) one of the false draggers (the fugitives), who does NOT reveal her true gender to him.
The fugitives make it big (within the local drag community) because they actually sing the songs (not just lip sync), and they help the owner expand his club to dinner theatre (which had gone extinct).
Big confrontation with the gangsters onstage culminating in a happy ending all the way around.
Rated 6.3 (7,447)
Universal & more, dir. Lembeck; 6
