When you follow your dreams there's no telling what you'll become.
Nia Vardalos and Toni Collette play Connie and Carla, two struggling Chicago dinner theatre performers who accidentally witness a mafia hit... and who subsequently hit the road, running for their lives.
Assuming the killers will never look for them in a place devoid of culture, the pair head to Los Angeles, where they assume new identities and find their middling talent at song and dance perfectly suited to new careers - as drag queens. Much to their surprise, they inadvertently become the toast of the cabaret circuit.
As their ruse becomes increasingly difficult to maintain, they discover that it is indeed lonely at the top, especially after Connie meets Jeff (David Duchovny), a guy she'd really like to be a real girl with.
With the mafia zeroing in and the line separating their onstage/offstage personas blurring beyond the point of recognition, Connie and Carla soon discover the power of pursuing your dreams, fighting the good fight, and never, never underestimating the transformative power of beauty products.
Special Agent Matti
It should be noted that Greek women aren't women at all, they're Drag Queens. Think about it.
It should come as no surprise, then, that the creator of My big fat Greek wedding should come up with Connie and Carla as her next offering. Also no surprise should be that it's funny, witty, camp, clever, honest and outrageous.
PG (Sexual references, low level violence, drug references, low level coarse language)
98 minutes (1:38 hours)
Film: 5 August 2004