Directed by:
Lorene MachadoCinematography:
Matthew ClarkComposer:
Pat IrwinCast:
Margaret Cho, Alan Cumming, Elaine Hendrix, Butch Klein, Jane Lynch, John Cho, Danny Hoch, Kathy Najimy, Wilson Cruz, Nisha Ganatra, Kali Rocha, Mark Vasconcellos, Jason Olive, Kyra Oser, Jackie Beat (more)Plots(1)
Celeste (Margaret Cho) and Bam Bam (Bruce Daniels) are best friends still stuck in the white bread Midwest hometown where they grew up. Celeste lives at home with her out-of-touch Mommy (also played by Cho) and has retained her outcast status since high school. She and Bam Bam are free-spirited rejects in a town where looking or dressing differently is perpetually uncool.
Shunned on a good day and taunted on a bad one, the only thing Bam Bam and Celeste have is each other. They both feel life is passing them by. After seeing an ad for a contestant search for TRADING FACES, a reality makeover show in N.Y., they decide to follow their dreams to New York City.
Their yellow brick road to the Big Apple is strewn with potential disasters and comical crises, as they encounter thugs, survivalists, racists and a lesbian Lone Ranger, played with ballsy charm by Jane Lynch and other roadside distractions before finally reaching The City. They arrive, only to find their hometown high-school nemeses, now the style dictators of the world-famous Salon Mirage, sitting in judgment at TRADING FACES.
(official distributor synopsis)
Cast
Margaret Cho
USA
Best movies:
Face/Off (1997)
The Lost Room (2006) (series)
It's My Party (1996)
Alan Cumming
UK
Best movies:
X-Men 2 (2003)
Black Beauty (1994)
GoldenEye (1995)
Elaine Hendrix
USA
Best movies:
The Parent Trap (1998)
Adopt a Highway (2019)
LA Blues (2007)
Butch Klein
Best movies:
Get Smart (2008)
Jane Lynch
USA
Best movies:
The Fugitive (1993)
8 (2012) (theatrical recording)
Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
John Cho
South Korea
Best movies:
American Beauty (1999)
Star Trek (2009)
Star Trek into Darkness (2013)
Danny Hoch
USA
Best movies:
Black Hawk Down (2001)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Kathy Najimy
USA
Best movies:
WALL-E (2008)
The Fisher King (1991)
If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000) (TV movie)
Wilson Cruz
USA
Best movies:
Ally McBeal (1997) (series)
Nixon (1995)
He's Just Not That Into You (2009)
Nisha Ganatra
Canada
Kali Rocha
USA
Best movies:
White Oleander (2002)
Buried (2010)
The Love Letter (1998) (TV movie)
Mark Vasconcellos
USA
Best movies:
Cutthroat Island (1995)
Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season (1999)
Cassandro (2023)
Jason Olive
USA
Best movies:
Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99 (1999) (video compilation)
Madonna: Celebration: The Video Collection (2009) (video compilation)
The Feast of All Saints (2001) (TV movie)
Kyra Oser
Best movies:
Thank You for Smoking (2005)
Dreamgirls (2006)
Flightplan (2005)
Jackie Beat
Best movies:
Blue Movie (1995)
Flawless (1999)
Adam & Steve (2005)
Wayne Federman
USA
Best movies:
50 First Dates (2004)
Black Sunday (1977)
Knocked Up (2007)