Newcomer Max Harwood stars as a gay Sheffield high schooler determined to attend his prom in drag in Amazon’s screen version of the hit London stage musical, also featuring Richard E. Grant.
The tried-and-true template of the individualistic dreamer struggling to rise above the gray prospects of life in regional working-class England gets a glittery paint job in.
To casual observers, this inspirational story of queer self-affirmation — which drops Sept. 17 on Amazon after its U.S. premiere as the opener of, switching a teenage drag queen for a lesbian. But the two stage musicals that spawned the movies were developed more or less simultaneously, and
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