The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Stephan Elliott
Written by	Stephan Elliott
Produced by	Al Clark; Michael Hamlyn;
Starring	Terence Stamp; Hugo Weaving; Guy Pearce; Bill Hunter;
Cinematography	Brian J. Breheny
Edited by	Sue Blainey
Music by	Guy Gross
Production; companies	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment; Specific Films;
Distributed by	Roadshow Film Distributors
Release dates	15 May 1994 (Cannes Film Festival); 10 August 1994 (United States); 8 September 1994 (Australia);
Running time	103 minutes
Country	Australia
Language	English
Budget	A$1,884,200; (US$2 million)
Box office	$29.7 million

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a 1994 Australian road comedy film written and directed by Stephan Elliott. The plot follows three drag queens, played by Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, and Terence Stamp (whose character is a transgender woman), as they journey across the Australian Outback from Sydney to Alice Springs in a tour bus that they have named "Priscilla", along the way encountering various groups and individuals.

The film was a surprise worldwide hit and its positive portrayal of LGBT individuals helped to introduce LGBT themes to a mainstream audience.^[3] It received predominantly positive reviews and won an Academy Award for Best Costume Design at the 67th Academy Awards. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and became a cult classic both in Australia and abroad.^[4]

Priscilla subsequently provided the basis for a musical, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, which opened in 2006 in Sydney before travelling to New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Broadway.

^ "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – Review". Oz Movies. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
^ "THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT (15)". British Board of Film Classification. 9 August 1994. Archived from the original on 8 September 2014. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
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^ "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert". Festival de Cannes. Archived from the original on 5 October 2012. Retrieved 31 August 2009.