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Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette, David Duchovny, Stephen Spinella, Alec Mapa ... see more see more... , Christopher Logan , Robert Kaiser , Ian Gomez , Nick Sandow , Dash Mihok , Robert John Burke , Boris McGiver , Mike Roberds , Babs Chula , Linda Darlow , Veena Sood , Gary Jones , Don Ackerman , Fred Keating , Adam Harrington , Kristi Angus , Nicola Crosbie , Guy Fauchon , Danielle Woodman , Morris Bart & Kimberly C. Anderson , Charles Payne , Kristina Copeland , Fiona Hogan , Krista Rae , D. Neil Mark , June B. Wilde , Carl McDonald , Brittney Wilson , Douglas Baird , Paddy Ma , Ryf Van Rij , Jay Williams , Todd Oberg , Chelah Horsdal , Elaine Kliner , Douglas McLeod , Stephen Cottrill , Lloyd Nicholson , Gordon Roberts , Chris Logan

Actress and writer Nia Vardalos, who became an overnight sensation with My Big Fat Greek Wedding, returns to the big screen with this gender-bending comedy. Connie (Vardalos) and Carla (Toni Collette)... read more read more... are best friends who've shared the same dream ever since they were teenagers -- making a name for themselves in the musical theater. However, after years of treading water on Chicago's dinner theater circuit and playing bottom-of-the-barrel nightclubs, the two are facing middle age with minimal career success. One evening after a performance, Connie and Carla have the misfortune of witnessing the murder of nightclub owner Frank (Michael Roberds) by low-level Mafiosi; the gals are seen by the shooters, and they hit the road in fear for their lives. Connie and Carla end up in Los Angeles, where they struggle to create new identities for themselves. After witnessing a drag review at a nightclub, they realize that even they have more talent than most of the men performing that evening, and they decide to pose as female impersonators in hopes of landing a gig. Connie and Carla's new act is an immediate hit, and soon they're the toast of L.A.'s gay community. But the women discover it's difficult to keep on fooling people into believing they're men, and things become even more complicated when the Mobsters discover that Connie and Carla are in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Connie finds herself falling for Jeff (David Duchovny), a regular guy looking for his cross-dressing brother who can't understand why he's developing a crush on a drag queen. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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PG-13, 1 hr. 38 min.

Directed by: Michael Lembeck

Release Date: April 16, 2004

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DVD Release Date: August 17, 2004

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  • aliceinpunderland
    August 1, 2007
    aliceinpunderland
    Hi-freakin-larious! And who doesn't love a cameo appearance by Debbie Reynolds?
  • danieljparsons
    June 18, 2007
    danieljparsons
    Borrowing liberally from Sister Act, Victor/Victoria, Some Like It Hot and Thelma & Louise amongst others, Connie And Carla was a lot better, in my opinion of course, than the extremely bad press it got in the UK suggested.

    Two friends trying

    ... read more to make it big, but failing, with their cabaret act (they play to a disinterested crowd of jet-lagged individuals at airport lounges), witness a murder, and are discovered doing so, by members of a local mob. Fearing for their lives, they flee to Los Angeles where they find success with their act by posing as drag queens (which makes them women posing as men dressed as women) at a dwindling gay bar. Inevitably, one of their pair becomes romantically interested in a straight guy, and with their act becoming more successful they risk having their secrets found out and the mob catching up with them.

    Things start to fall apart a bit around the time of the cameo appearance of a certain someone (whose shtick was served much better in smaller doses in episodes of Will & Grace), and it seems like the story has nowhere else to go. The film ends predictably amid much talk of the meaning of being true to oneself, but the happy ending isn't oversold. Toni Collette is good in pretty much everything she does, and I have to admit that I've probably added an extra half star because of her presence and her fantastic ad-libs. Nia Vardalos is also less punchable here than she was in My Big Fat Greek Weeding, and David Duchovny thankfully keeps it low key as the love interest. The laughs are hit and miss at times, but as a whole the film is worth a watch and passes the time quite nicely.
  • wbgoose13
    February 1, 2007
    wbgoose13
    A weird kind of tolerable.
  • fb100000185301014
    December 28, 2011
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    I don't know what to say here, it's not awfully bad or superbly good. I like the story but the acting is so bad, not from Nia or Toni off course. It's campy fun but too campy.
  • robfearon
    July 1, 2009
    robfearon
    Maybe I'm enough of a sucker for Toni Collette or maybe it was my forgiving approach to the concept, but it provided me enough chuckles to call it entertainment.
  • InaHH
    August 18, 2008
    InaHH
    Delicously campy fun. Predictable yes, but also good-hearted and highly entertaining. Toni Collette and Nia Vardalos are highly convincing drag queens in their hilarious, over-the-top performance.
  • ileo
    April 12, 2007
    ileo
    Love this movie. Very funny!
  • FanGirl
    March 26, 2007
    FanGirl
    A fun flim.
  • youngboy832002
    June 14, 2011
    youngboy832002
    This is one funny good movie. If you like Comedies you will love this one. I don't want to describe it cause it gives the theme away but great movie. A Must See!!
  • jam233
    June 4, 2010
    jam233
    Apparently I was one of the few to enjoy this. I am a big fan of Toni Collette and I thought she was amazing in this. It is Nia Vardalos' best role to date. The story is predictable, but along the way it is tremendously entertaining, as well as funny and touching. Some great musi... read morecal performances to boot. It's a slight take off on Some Like It Hot. It's nothing too deep but good fun.

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Critic Reviews

Richard Roeper
April 19, 2004
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

... just awful. Full Review

Stephanie Zacharek
April 17, 2004
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

Isn't really a movie but a blatant girls' night out vehicle. Full Review

Michael O'Sullivan
April 16, 2004
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

It may not be subtle, but, like drag itself, Connie and Carla affords a few corny, if artless, pleasures. Full Review

Geoff Pevere
April 16, 2004
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star

Connie And Carla never manages to rise above the airport-lounge aesthetic of its title characters. Full Review

Ruthe Stein
April 16, 2004
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle

Someone should tell Vardalos this is well-trod territory. Full Review

Joe Baltake
April 16, 2004
Joe Baltake, Sacramento Bee

Entertaining and very funny. Full Review

Roger Moore
April 16, 2004
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

An infectiously funny farce in the Some Like it Hot, Victor/Victoria tradition. Full Review

Stephen Whitty
April 16, 2004
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

The only drag is this picture. Full Review

Jami Bernard
April 16, 2004
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News

The whole enterprise is scrubbed clean of the very quirks such a comedy craves. Full Review

Tom Long
April 16, 2004
Tom Long, Detroit News

Brassy, sassy and laugh-aloud funny in a let's-put-on-a-show way.

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