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Flawless

Flawless

1999
Drama
1h 52m
Walt Koontz, a homophobic guy, ends up with paralyzed vocal cords because of an unfortunate stroke. His therapy includes receiving singing lessons from a neighbor who is not only openly flamboyant but also a pre-op transgenderist. Both of them are equally prejudiced; Koontz against homosexuals and the neighbor against close-minded straight people. (imdb)
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Flawless

1999
Drama
1h 52m
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Rated 11 Feb 2014
43
2nd
The script, direction and much of the acting is truly laughable, but if you're simply interested in a great performance by Philip Seymour Hoffman then you won't be disappointed.
Rated 17 Sep 2007
60
39th
good acting
Rated 30 Mar 2008
60
58th
Well paced & surprisingly interesting story with a few laughs thrown in. The performances are good & a message of toleration is always in style.
Rated 21 Apr 2008
47
31st
Most of this movie is dislikeable, bordering on unwatchable and offensive. However, I loved the ending, when it suddenly turns into an action film with a transsexual in heels in the lead. As much as I hated the rest of this film, I wanted to cheer at the end; they really did develop that particular character well, so I felt very tense.
Rated 05 Feb 2009
72
21st
De Niro's performance is a technical challenge, since through most of the movie he dosen't talk clearly or walk very well. Philip Seymour Hoffman is spectacular, gives a perfomance with a nice bittersweet rhythm with De Niro thats just alittle too colorful with it's settings and characters to be real, but it works as a story of a drag queen who able to see through the tough guy act of Ne Diro and indenifies with his suffering. The flaw of Flawless is it's over the top but I liked this film.
Rated 14 Nov 2009
75
89th
Great film with excellent performances by Hoffman and De niro.
Rated 02 Feb 2010
71
17th
Good performances don't can't save this sentimental saga of the tranny and the homophobe.
Rated 07 Jul 2010
66
45th
I had to do a double-take when the credits rolled and "written and directed by Joel Schumacher" appeared on the screen. The same man who directed "Batman and Robin" right? Anyway, a nice, off-beat story, even though I wasn't really wild about the fact that it took so long for the full extent of the plot to come together. And I've said it before, and I doubt that it will change: You just can't top Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Rated 18 Oct 2010
0
0th
First you ruin Batman....then you ruin DeNiro (his downfall started with this). Fuck you Schumacher!
Rated 26 Oct 2011
58
25th
58.000
Rated 27 Feb 2012
70
37th
Genuinely strange film gets a lot of mileage from Hoffman's outstanding, heartfelt performance and reliably solid work from De Niro, both playing challenging characters. Falters rather badly at times when it loses focus on De Niro Hoffman by-play, inexplicably leads to a quite vividly violent climax, and indulges in a few homophobic epithets that draw a wince, but overall marks a respectable change-of-pace for director Schumacher.
Rated 08 Sep 2012
70
40th
Funny, yet moving, movie about a cliche topic but good execution sets it apart.
Rated 01 Jan 2013
29
13th
Hardly.
Rated 07 Dec 2013
75
69th
Great performances, especially Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Rated 10 Mar 2014
68
37th
Hoffman and De Niro make the most out of cliche characters (Hoffman's performance is especially good), but the plot is very simple. The best scenes are the ones that focus on the Walt/Rusty relationship and show these people gaining an understanding of one another. There are some funny exchanges scattered among the serious story of a crime-ridden apartment complex, and some entertaining, over-the-top moments featuring Rusty's wild band of Drag Queens. Worth a watch for fans of actors involved.
Rated 21 Aug 2014
80
50th
Schumacher pairs two of our very most compelling actors in that timeless Odd Couple formula and both powerhouse stars have great physical gimmicks to play off of! Though Schumacher disrupts his intriguing premise with tacked-on and overworked plot engines it didn't need, the movie's overcrowdedness gives it full emotional and tonal flavor and paints a whole world and ensemble in a New York tenement world straight out of the movies.
Rated 08 Jun 2015
60
40th
way overdone, stereotypical and formulaic. and the crime-element did not fit in at all. call it the joel schumacher version of the far superior "as good as it gets". de niro and hoffman's performances are noteworthy as expected, but aside from the occasional hit, the tone is just too all over the place to create anything of substance.
Rated 04 Feb 2016
55
17th
The Cures to Homophobia, Sex Work Discrimination, and Transphobia as written by a 15-year-old: The Movie
Rated 07 Nov 2019
6
45th
har sina golden moments, men kändes inte som att flera apekter av historien/historierna gick särskilt djupt eller fick så mycket genomslag
Rated 20 Nov 2019
12
24th
My least favorite Philip Seymour Hoffman film. Probably my least favorite De Niro film, too. Both play utterly obnoxious characters, even if they do do them well. It's a pretty cliche 90's film in a lot of ways. The direction and writing are both subpar and uninspired. The plot is outright silly yet makes the mistake of taking itself pretty seriously. Hoffman is great, as always, but his presence alone can't sell the movie.
Rated 11 Feb 2020
46
40th
Proof positive I will watch Philip Seymour Hoffman do ANYTHING. He's great, but the thing's a huge mess, and makes its points with a sledgehammer. The "respectable" folk are total shits and the outcasts are the only actual human beings--the awesome courage they display when it comes to human relationships is terrifying. De Niro is good as a mostly repellent man. Lousy writing, but some good one-liners: "It's something...in the throat." "I need some butch faggots over here...I need some dykes!"

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