Synopsis
After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where they go way undercover as singers working the city's dinner theater circuit ... disguised as drag queens. Now, it's not enough that they become big hits on the scene; things get extra-weird when Connie meets Jeff -- a guy she'd like to be a woman with.
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Cast
- Nia VardalosConnie
- Toni ColletteCarla
- David DuchovnyJeff
- Stephen SpinellaRobert / Peaches
- Alec MapaLee / N'Cream
- Ian GomezStanley
- Nick SandowAl
- Dash MihokMikey
- Robert John BurkeRudy
- Boris McGiverTibor
Recommendations
- 67
Entertainment Weekly
The surprise -- and intermittent delight -- of Connie and Carla is the way that it taps into the everybody-is-a-star passion of the new sing-along culture. - 63
Chicago Tribune
Vardalos and Collette have mighty pipes, but it's Collette who moves with the confidence and flair of a musical theater veteran. Watching this film, I found myself caring less and less about the fairly predictable and safe story and waiting impatiently for the next number. - 63
Philadelphia Inquirer
The chief appeal of this affectionate story is its embrace of those who are not thinner, richer and more glamorous than the moviegoers. - 50
Washington Post
Broad and cheesy, yet it is not utterly without a kind of junk-food appeal. - 40
The A.V. Club
Seems as much an imposter in the drag-queen world as its heroines; it fronts the sort of safely asexual gay characters found on network TV. - 40
Variety
It takes chutzpah to borrow from comedy maestros Billy Wilder and Blake Edwards, and Nia Vardalos would seem an unlikely candidate to get away with it unpunished. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Veteran TV director Michael Lembeck slides the movie into a sitcom mode that only further deadens the thin material. While Vardalos and Collette shine in the musical numbers, why didn't he bother to give the musical sequences a bit of pizzazz? - 38
Charlotte Observer
Where "Wedding" introduced us to a Greek family most of us had never seen before, "Connie" plays out like a clumsy episode of "Laverne and Shirley:" familiar, phony and forgettable.
