The Out of Towners (1999)

Henry and Nancy Clark (Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn) live in the mid-West (of the USA) but have to visit New York for an important engagement. Everything goes wrong in their travel arrangements, including the fact that their daughter has overspent on the parents' credit card and they have no money, temporarily.

John Cleese plays a rather fascist hotel manager, and he throws them out. However he is a closet drag queen and Nancy discovers him miming to a record, wearing high heels, and a woman's fur coat and hat. She uses this to blackmail him into helping her.

The dressing at this stage is only partial, but in a few seconds at the very end of the film the three of them are seen at the opera, with Cleese fully cross-dressed, though still with moustache; Hawn then accuses him of wearing her ear-rings.

The humour never works consistently, though, and the film isn't a patch on the original from 1970, of which it is a remake; but the earlier film does not have this content.

HF May 2002

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