FLAWLESS
Year: 1999
USA: MGM
UK: Optimum Releasing
Cast: Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Miller, Chris Bauer, Skipp Sudduth, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Nashom Benjamin, Scott Allen Cooper, Rory Cochrane, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Vincent Laresca, Karina Arroyave, John Enos III, Jude Ciccolella, Mina Bern, Wanda De Jesus, Madhur Jaffrey, Mark Margolis, Shiek Mahmud-Bey, Luis Saguar, Kyle Rivers, Sammy Rhee, Hyunsoo Lee, Richie LaMontagne, Penny Balfour, Winter B Uhlarik, Joseph Arias, Jackie Beat, Blake Willett, Ingrid Rivera, Craig Braun, John Doumanian, Melissa Osborn, John Contratti, Stacy Highsmith, Rod Rodriguez, Alice Williams, Antonette Schwartzberg, Hamilton De Oliveira, John Polce, Logan McCall, John Mack, John Corcoran, Matt Merchant, Kevin Aviance, Coco LaChine, Jose angel Garcia, Bruce Roberts, Al Marz, Michelle Robinson, Nina Sonja Peterson, Mitchell Lichtenstein, John Fink, Bret Kropp, Cooley, Constance Boardman, Lucy Cerezo-Scully, Al Thompson, Larry Marx
Director: Joel Schumacher
Country: USA
USA & UK: 110 mins
USA Rated: R for pervasive language and strong violence
UK Certificate: 15 for some coarse language, frequent strong language, and violence
USA Release Date: 24 November 1999
UK Release Date: 24 November 2000
Synopsis
FLAWLESS is the story of two New Yorkers living next door to each other and worlds apart. Walt Koontz is a retired security guard, ultraconservative and proud of it, living in New York City's Lower East Side. Late one night, while trying to help a neighbor in trouble, Walt suffers a stroke which leaves him with partial paralysis. Refusing to leave his apartment for therapy, Walt very reluctantly agrees to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons with a performer who lives upstairs -- a street-tough drag queen named Rusty.
Starring Academy Award winner Robert De Niro (RAGING BULL, ANALYZE THIS) as Walt Koontzand Philip Seymour Hoffman (BOOGIE NIGHTS, HAPPINESS) as Rusty Zimmerman, Walt's flamboyant neighbor, FLAWLESS is written and directed by Joel Schumacher (BATMAN FOREVER, A TIME TO KILL)
