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Victor/Victoria (1982) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Jun 4, 2002
MPAA Rating
PG
Running Time
2 hours, 12 minutes
Country UK, USA
Studio MGM, United Artists
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Genre: Romance, Comedy, Musical, Gay/Lesbian, Role-switching, Scams And Cons, Showbiz, Gangsters, Farce, Police, Detectives, Racy
Tagline: The disguise surprise comedy of the year!
Plot: Blake Edwards tones down the broadly farcical style that is his signature with this sly musical comedy starring Julie Andrews as British entertainer Victoria Grant. She and an older friend, gay impresario Toddy (Robert Preston), are close to starvation in 1930s Paris. Desperate for work, he changes her image, introducing her to the cabaret world as female impersonator Victor/Victoria. Victoria, now a woman pretending to be a man in drag, becomes a huge success in the nightclub world. Chicago gangster King Marchan (James Garner) becomes especially intrigued by Victor/Victoria while visiting Paris with his dim-witted girlfriend, Norma (Lesley Anne Warren), and his ever-faithful bodyguard, Squash (Alex Karras), who's more than a little concerned by his boss's interest in a transvestite. As Marchan tries to get to the source of his attraction to the entertainer, trying to uncover the truth behind the rhinestone headdress, the farce commences, and the meaning of gender and sexual preference comes into question for all the characters. A director who often shows a willingness to let the seams in his work show for comic effect, Edwards has opted for stylish smoothness here while opening himself to questions of gender that his earlier films had anxiously mocked. Robert Preston steals the
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| Directed by |
Blake Edwards
Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Pink Panther, Blind Date |
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| Written by |
Blake Edwards
City Heat, Soldier in the Rain, The Notorious Landlady | |
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 | John Rhys-Davies
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
 | Robert Preston
The Last Starfighter, The Music Man, How the West Was Won | | Graham Stark
Superman III, Blind Date, The Return of the Pink Panther | |
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