Director – Jamie Patterson – 2018 – UK – Cert.15 – 80m
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An ageing drag queen with weeks to live takes a younger performer under his wing – British film dealing with gender fluidity and death is available on BFI Player from Thursday, March 17th
Are you straight? So is spaghetti – ’til it gets hot and sticky.
Just one of the dirty jokes in the small club stage repertoire of ageing drag queen Jackie (Derren Nesbitt), 74. One night he collapses on his kitchen floor. He has an aggressive form of cancer and only six to seven weeks left to live.
Another night. He’s asked to show the ropes to a new performer Faith (Jordan Stephens), 21. Discovering Faith sleeping in his car, he offers the boy a home (with no untoward intentions).
Jackie dresses in women’s clothes but also likes women: outrageously gay Faith is shocked to find Jackie isn’t. Faith thinks Jackie should tell his estranged daughter that he’s dying… Read the rest
Tucked is available on BFI Player from Thursday, March 10th, 2022.
Review for DMovies.org.
Tucked was out in the UK on Friday, May 17th 2018. On DVD and VoD in September 2018.… Read the rest