Barry Miller, Chris Bauer, Christopher Bauer

Who could possibly be the target audience for Flawless? Walter (Robert De Niro) is a homophobic policeman who suffers a stroke while responding to gunshots in his own apartment building; for sp...( read more  read more... )eech therapy, he starts taking singing lessons from his neighbor Rusty (Philip Seymour Hoffman of Magnolia, Boogie Nights, and Happiness), a gay drag queen who's saving up money for a sex-change operation. However, there's another story line that takes up at least as much time as that one, about a drug dealer and his goons trying to find money that was stolen from them, brutally beating up everyone in their path. Furthermore, the local gay community (in New York City) seems to consist entirely of drag queens and Log Cabin Republicans, and one of Walter's cop buddies goggles at drag queens as if he's just arrived from the middle of Iowa. All the characters--including various prostitutes, drug dealers, a hotel clerk who's a weaselly mama's boy, as well as the aforementioned drag queens and cops--are horrific stereotypes. De Niro and Hoffman, both extremely talented actors, do all they can to overcome their cliché-studded dialogue, but they never seem to be in the same movie. Written and directed by Joel Schumacher, whose eclectic career includes Batman & Robin, A Time to Kill, Flatliners, and St. Elmo's Fire. --Bret Fetzer

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R, 111 min.

Directed by: Joel Schumacher

Release Date: November 24, 1999

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DVD Release Date: August 15, 2001

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  • September 29, 2009
    Contrived nonsense. Robert De Niro & Philip Seymour Hoffman are better than this. Joel Schumacher however, is not.
  • January 9, 2009
    Another great film from Joel Schumacher, with a great performance from De Niro (as always) who very convincingly played a Stroke patient, but even more impressive was the performance given by Philip Seynour Hoffman, who delivered (in my opinion) his best performance to date. I l...( read more)ove the way this unlikely friendship develops and is a very enjoyable film.
  • August 23, 2008
    Nothing special, nothing extraordinary. And surely enough not flawless.

    But full of great, memorable quotes ("Life's a bitch, so I became one, honey") and some brilliant scenes (where Hoffman and DeNiro have an argument and they call each other only with words that begin with ...( read more)-f) Needless to talk about the performances, since Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robert DeNiro are two of the greatest actors of american cinema today. But Hoffman shines more in this particular movie, he actually overshadows DeNiro, although DeNiro's role was harder to deliver.

    However, it's a movie you forget after you watch it and for the most part it's just ridiculous when it should be serious.
  • November 15, 2007
    great story robert de niro was awesome and philip seymour hoffman was priceless....great GREAT great story & message
  • November 8, 2007
    You won't stop loving Phillip Seymour Hoffman... but also you won't stop wondering if maybe (just maybe) De Niro is a liiiiitle bit overrated these days... just a thought...
  • November 6, 2009
    Philip Seymour Hoffman versione drag queen e De Niro ormai disabile dopo un infarto.
    Che cacchio di coppia splendida.
  • September 14, 2009
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  • May 30, 2009
    another incredible role
  • May 23, 2009
    viva robert de niro.. great movie.. sometimes we have to change our mind if we are in trouble. thats what happened in this movie.
  • March 15, 2009
    personas tan diferentes que se unen por necesidad y descubren que pueden tener mucho en común y hasta surgen los afectos me encanta esta peli

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  • IndieLove
    June 24, 2007
    psh plays an awesome queen !! haahahah
    poor me poor me pour me another!!

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