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Flawless

1999

Joel Schumacher

Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Miller, Chris Bauer ...

5.7

2,741

Drama. Comedy Walt Koontz, a homophobic guy, ends up with paralyzed vocal cords because of an unfortunate stroke. His therapy includes receiving singing lessons from a neighbor who is not only openly flamboyant but also a pre-op transgenderist. Both of them are equally prejudiced; Koontz against homosexuals and the neighbor against close-minded straight people.

	Media	Author	Review
		Stephen Holden The New York Times	"Garish, message-laden comedy "Flawless" is 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.
		Edward Guthmann SFGATE	"Contrived and overly schematic, but De Niro and Hoffman are such good actors that it never slips into pat sentiment. (...) This isn't a great film, and its central strategy is starting to seem old. But it's got a good heart"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"When the movie involves Walt and Rusty, it has a wacky charm (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It's a predictable odd-couple scenario (...) but it's saved by a cracking performance from Hoffman"
		Emanuel Levy Variety	"Though uneven in its narrative structure and characterization, and overextending its welcome by at least 10 minutes (...) [it] should play reasonably well with gay audiences and urbanites."

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