Too Outrageous!

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Too Outrageous!
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Directed by Richard Benner
Written byRichard Benner
Margaret Gibson
Produced byLee Gordon
Roy Krost
Starring Craig Russell
Hollis McLaren
CinematographyManfred Guthe
Edited by George Appleby
Music byRuss Little
Distributed byInternational Spectrafilm
Release date
  • 1987 (1987)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Too Outrageous! is a 1987 Canadian comedy film directed and written by Richard Benner and starring Craig Russell as Robin Turner, a drag queen. It is based on a story by Margaret Gibson. [1]

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Synopsis

A sequel to the 1977 film Outrageous! , Too Outrageous! is about the further adventures of Robin Turner, a gay hairdresser-turned-drag queen nightclub performer. [2] [3]

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Notes
  1. Maslin, Janet (1987-10-16). "Film: 'Too Outrageous,' a Sequel". The New York Times . Retrieved 2010-11-15.
  2. Film.com
  3. Waugh, T. (2006). Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas. MQUP. p. 503. ISBN   9780773530690 . Retrieved 2015-11-13.
  4. Genie Awards for 1988, IMDb, accessed 2010-11-14.
  5. Wise, Wyndham, A Career Interview with Manfred Guthe csc, dgc, dga Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine , Canadian Society of Cinematographers, accessed 2010-11-14.
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