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Flawless

1999 · 1h 52m · R Comedy, Drama
Directed by Joel Schumacher

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Overview

An ultraconservative police officer suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons - with the drag queen next door.

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All reviews
43%
Tomatometer
Rotten

Outdated and schematic, this two-character melodrama belongs to the 1970s, when transsexuals were "novel" dramatic persona; even the gifted Philip Seymour Hoffman is defeated by the writing and direction.

Emanuel Levy, Variety
Rotten

Its weary cliches and flat comic bits are apparently supposed to be fresh and insightful.

Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rotten

You need a pair of huge, hairy ones to make a picture this bad and call it "Flawless."

Charles Taylor, Salon.com
Fresh

"Flawless" is contrived and overly schematic, but De Niro and Hoffman are such good actors that it never slips into pat sentiment.

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten

So awful it just might put an end to Hollywood's hypocritical infatuation with men in drag as symbols of its own supposedly liberated sexual attitudes.

Stephen Holden, New York Times

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