In America (2002, Ireland)

An Irish family emigrates to New York City, entering the USA illegally. The film sentimentally follows the tribulations of the unlucky family in the big city.

Drag Queens are among the residents of the tenement they live in; four or five of them are shown entering a restaurant where the immigrant family are eating, to take refuge from a rainstorm. They are onscreen as blurs for a few seconds, without any dialogue, although as they enter one of them waves briefly to the younger daughter and she waves back.

Later in the film and not specifically referencing this scene, the mother warns the two small daughters about drug addicts and transvestites, evidently equally undesirable. The younger daughter Ariel asks, "What's a transvestite?" and the older daughter Christy answers, "A man who dresses up in women's clothes."

Ariel, "Like Halloween?"

Christy, "No, all the time -- all the time."

"Why?"

"It's just what they do here, ok?"

HF April 2005

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