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Paris Is Burning
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Overview

User Rating:
7.4/10   859 votes
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Director:
Jennie Livingston
Contact:
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Release Date:
August 1991 (USA) more
Genre:
Documentary more
Tagline:
Having a ball...wish you were here
Plot:
This is a documentary of 'drag nights' among New York's underclass. Queens are interviewed and observed preparing for and competing in many 'balls'... more | add synopsis
Awards:
12 wins & 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
October. It's a Wrap.
 (From FilmExperience. 31 October 2009, 8:00 PM, PDT)

Screen Queens: Paris Is Burning
 (From FilmExperience. 17 October 2009, 12:30 PM, PDT)

User Comments:
I Love this movie. more (25 total)

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Children Are (USA) (working title)
To Be Real (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
71 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Iceland:L | Australia:M | USA:R
Company:
Miramax Films more

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Dorian Corey: I always had hopes of being a big star. But as you get older, you aim a little lower. Everybody wants to make an impression, some mark upon the world. Then you think, you've made a mark on the world if you just get through it, and a few people remember your name. Then you've left a mark. You don't have to bend the whole world. I think it's better to just enjoy it. Pay your dues, and just enjoy it. If you shoot an arrow and it goes real high, hooray for you. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (2006) more
Soundtrack:
Got To Be Real more

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11 out of 11 people found the following comment useful.
I Love this movie., 11 February 2006
10/10
Author: giatime from Los Angeles

First of all I am a butch, straight white male. But even with that handicap I love this movie. It's about real people. A real time and place. And of course New York City in the 80's. I had many gay friends growing up in New York in the eighties and the one thing about them i always admired was their courage to live their lives the way they wanted to live them. No matter what the consequences. That's courageous. You have to admire that. This is a great film, watch it and take in what it was like to be a flamboyant African American or Hispanic Gay man in the New York of the eighties. It's real life. Bottom line it's real life.

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