Connie and Carla

Connie and Carla is a 2004 American comedy film directed by Michael Lembeck and starring Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette, and David Duchovny. The screenplay was written by Vardalos.

Connie Nia Vardalos and Carla Toni Collette are two performers whose lifelong friendship and coobsession with musical theater have brought nothing but career dead ends. Despite this they continue their optimism, hosting a variety act at an airport lounge. After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in Chicago, they go on the run, landing in Los Angeles. Initially working at a beauty salon, they wind up posing as drag queens and auditioning to host a drag revue at a gay club.Because they sing their own songs a rarity for queens, they are hired, and their variety show first entitled What a Drag Pun Intended then called Connie and Carla and the Belles of the Ball after they add a few friends to the act becomes a hit. Things are going smoothly but the two make a pact not to let men interfere with their life. This causes conflict when Connie falls for Jeff David Duchovny, the straight brother of Robert Stephen Spinella, one of their drag queen friends. As the show gets bigger, the two convince the club owner, Stanley Ian Gomez, to convert it into a full dinner theater, and eventually their popularity threatens to expose them. ........

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