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Connie and Carla

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Connie and Carla (2004)

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Reviews Counted:119

Fresh:52

Rotten:67

Average Rating:5.1/10

Consensus: The two female leads, as well as energitic musical numbers, enliven an otherwise silly reworking of Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for thematic elements, sexual humor and drug references

Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins

Genre: Musical & Performing Arts

Theatrical Release:Apr 16, 2004 Wide

Box Office: $7,976,065

Synopsis: Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette and David Duchovny star in Spyglass Entertainment Production's comedy Connie and Carla. Vardalos and Collette play Connie and Carla, two struggling Chicago dinner... Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette and David Duchovny star in Spyglass Entertainment Production's comedy Connie and Carla. Vardalos and Collette play Connie and Carla, two struggling Chicago dinner theater 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 (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 not compromising to pursue your dreams, fighting the good fight, and never, never underestimating the transformative power of cosmetics. The film is also scripted by Academy Award® - nominated screenwriter (and star of) My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Nia Vardalos. It is directed by Michael Lembeck (The Santa Clause 2) and produced by Spyglass' (Bruce Almighty, The Sixth Sense) Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber and Jonathan Glickman. Universal Pictures will distribute the film in the U.S. and Canada, with Spyglass distributing internationally. [More]

Starring: Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette, David Duchovny, Stephen Spinella

Starring: Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette, David Duchovny, Stephen Spinella, Dash Mihok, Debbie Reynolds, Alec Mapa

Director: Michael Lembeck

Director: Michael Lembeck
Screenwriter: Nia Vardalos
Producer: Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, Jonathan Glickman
Composer: Randy Edelman
Studio: Universal Pictures

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This dreary little misfire is as stale as the cabaret routines that it tries to both make sport of and to glamorize

Full Review Source: Killer Movie Reviews | comment Comment
04/14/04
Andrea Chase
Andrea Chase
Killer Movie Reviews

[An] uneven and overly busy comedy.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
04/16/04
Angel Cohn
Angel Cohn
TV Guide's Movie Guide

A good-natured but self-indulgent camp comedy lacking in originality, character and comic timing.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
06/11/04
Anna Smith
Anna Smith
Empire Magazine

There doesn’t seem to be much here that comedy director Michael Lembeck could save; it's a lopsided script laced with flat-footed humor and lazy characterization.

Full Review Source: FilmStew.com | comment Comment
04/21/04
Anthony D'Alessandro
Anthony D'Alessandro
FilmStew.com

A penny-dreadful imitation of one of Hollywood's most inimitable comedies.

Full Review Source: Dallas Observer | comment Comment
04/16/04
Bill Gallo
Bill Gallo
Dallas Observer

Timid, mousy and humorless.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
04/15/04
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

There are funny moments ... but the film grows progressively more dispirited.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
04/22/04
Chuck Wilson
Chuck Wilson
L.A. Weekly

For all of Wedding's mediocrity, Connie and Carla is even more of a drag.

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
04/15/04
Claudia Puig
Claudia Puig
USA Today

For audiences who adored "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," Nia Vardalos' follow up movie (she wrote both scripts) will come as a big fat letdown.

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
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Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

The film is as long on classic show tunes as it is short on new ideas.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
04/15/04
Colin Covert
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune

If they could sing like Julie Andrews did in Victor/Victoria, Connie and Carla wouldn’t have the one and only thing it has going for it: silliness.

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04/14/04
David Levine
David Levine
Filmcritic.com

The phrase 'written by Nia Vardalos' should send any self-respecting moviegoer screaming into the night, pursued by the comedienne's frizzy-haired brand of hysteria and the brain meltdown it inevitably induces.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
04/13/04
David Ng
David Ng
Village Voice

Vardalos is a much better actress than she is a writer, and the patchy script has a desperate, thrown-together feeling to it, as if she had to scramble to come up with something after Wedding's gargantuan success.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
08/08/04
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