Connie and Carla

Synopsis: After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where they go way undercover as singers working the city's dinner theater circuit ... as drag queens. Now, it's not enough that they become big hits on the scene; things get extra-weird when Connie meets Jeff -- a guy she'd like to be a woman with.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Music
Director(s): Michael Lembeck
Production: Universal Pictures
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
44
Rotten Tomatoes:
43%
PG-13
Year:
2004
98 min
$7,976,065
Website
499 Views


Hey, check it out.

Look at those two losers.

Hi, everyone. We're Connie.

And Carla.

Nerds.

Attention, please.

The yearbook committee

will meet today at 3.40 in the library.

Good crowd.

Connie, are you sure we should?

Don't forget the harmony

in the second verse, okay?

Okay.

This is going to work, Carla.

We just have to stick to

my plan. Right. The plan.

We're gonna be huge.

Huge!

All students registered

for the planetarium feld trip...

should now be on the bus.

Get off the stage.

Oklahoma where the wind comes

sweeping down the plain

And the waving wheat can sure

smell sweet They're freaks.

Where the wind comes

right behind the rain

Oklahoma every night

my honey lamb and I

We sit alone and talk

and watch a hawk

Making lazy circles in the sky

Oklahoma

- 31-B.

- Jesus Christ

Superstar

Do you think you're

What they say you are

Papa, can you hear me

Papa, are you near me

Papa, how I miss you

Kissing me

Good night

Papa

- Thank you. You've been a great crowd.

- All of you.

Memory

All alone in the moonlight

I can smile at the-

And the greatest thing

about that car show is...

you can sit in any car you want

for as long as you want.

Yeah, I remember that

from last year.

- Cut it out, Al.

- You know, Carla. Me and Al just got this new job.

- We're loading stuff in this warehouse. It's great.

- Oh, that's great!

- What's your problem?

- I'm trying to eat, okay?

What are you doing here anyway?

I told you we broke up.

- Again?

- Let's go, Carla.

Where you going?

Mikey, the second show.

Yeah, Mikey, the second show.

Have some respect.

Don't you realize we're in the

presence of the great waitresses?

- Al, shut it.

- No, you shut it, Connie.

You and that stupid show.

You're like sad, you know.

After all these years, just face the

fact, it's not gonna happen and give up.

- What?

- What's your problem?

What is wrong with you?

Why can't you just be normal?

Al, I only have one life.

I want it to be a happy one.

Let's get outta here.

Come on, Carla.

Carla, please? Let's go.

You're a dreamer, Connie.

Wake up.

I told you that layover from Madison

would bring people in.

Connie. Carla.

Oh, we're gonna be able

to pay you back soon, Frank.

Frank, we needed more wigs than we

thought, and we have to do some advertising.

Good show.

Oh!

You girls are great!

- I gotta go see about a delivery.

- Thanks, Frank.

Hey, Frank.

Rudy's looking for you.

- Carla-

- Dinner theater will be so in again.

Yeah, Debbie Reynolds

defnitely knew what she was doing.

Debbie Reynolds? Darling. Darling.

Chins up, b*obs out!

It's showtime!

Oh. Actually,

the show's over. Sorry.

If you're flying through, come back in

a month when the show will be huge. Huge!

We're Connie.

And Carla.

- Do you like musicals?

Stop talking, strange women.

I can tell by your lovely accent you're

a visitor to this country, and welcome.

- Where is fat man?

- He has a gland problem.

- Ooh!

- Ooh!

Where's Frank?

Uh, he just left, Rudy.

- Where does he park?

- On the rooftop.

Tibor, let's go.

Nice to meet you, Connie. Carla.

We gotta warn Frank.

Let's go.

The shipment is short...

again.

I didn't take anything, Rudy.

You were the only one

who handled the transport.

So now I have to kill ya.

Let's go get security.

Okay. Look.

You know, Frank, I'm always the one.

How long's this been going on?

- Look. Just in time.

- How long?

No! No!

Offcer, look. These guys

are big-time coke dealers.

You take me in, I'll tell you

anything you wanna know, okay?

I left the stuff back at the

Traveler's Lounge with some girls.

You just go and ask

for Connie and Carla.

Connie and Carla.

It's Connie and Carla.

Oh! Oh, my God!

Oh!

Carla, please. Carla-

Okay, why the throat?

I can't believe you would actually-

Carla, calm down. Your voice is giving

me cramps. Those guys are gonna kill us!

Carla, we're okay. We're okay.

Oh, my God, there they are!

Did I get 'em?

Did I get 'em?

They're still coming.

They're coming! They're coming!

Please say where you're going.

We don't know, Ma.

We just suddenly realized we have

to make a move for our careers.

We're not in trouble or anything.

Connie. Carla.

Are you prostitutes?

We'll call you!

Okay.

What is that?

- What are you doing here?

- Your moms called.

Where are you going?

We're going away for a while.

Yeah, oh, I get it. Last week,

you supposedly break up with me.

Now you pretend you're leaving and

bum-ba-ba-da, I'm supposed to propose.

You want us to marry you. What are you

talking about? We're not even pre-engaged.

- Mikey, if you wanna propose, I'm ready.

- Oh.

Mikey, don't get trapped. We've

been dating other girls anyway.

Yeah, we've been-

What?

Oh! Drive, Thelma, drive!

What do you got?

Sputnik, you can't fnd

two stupid women,

who have my kilo and saw

me blow someone's head off?

This is all

that was there.

Business contacts.

Old Town Dinner Theater,

St. Louis.

Lincoln House Dinner Theater,

Kansas City.

Balcony Dinner Theater,

Little Rock. They've left town.

Wait. Where's my work tote?

Oh, God!

- I think you left it!

- Oh, great! Now those guys know everything about us.

You don't have our home address

in there, do you? No, no, no.

We should just go to the

police. A cop shot poor Frank!

Just let me think, all right?

I'm trying to make up a new plan.

Where can we go?

- New York?

- New York?

- New York's too obvious.

- Florida?

- Florida?

- They can't hide.

- We can't hide!

- We gotta go someplace where we can just blend in.

Okay. Somewhere where

they'd never look for us,

because there's no theater,

no musical theater,

no dinner theater,

no culture at all.

Los Angeles.

We could be L.A. girls now.

We should work out.

Good one.

Thank you.

Oh. Oh, I think

I have a tissue.

- Here.

- Thank you.

What's this?

I don't know.

I can't see!

Oh, it tastes really funny!

Don't inhale!

Spit it out!

Stop breathing!

Where'd you get that?

I didn't get it!

Carla!

It was in your bag!

We've been rehearsing a lot,

and he's got that newjob.

What if he doesn't even have any job? What if

he's found somebody else? Yeah, yeah, that's it.

I think Mikey cheated on me, 'cause I was

always working nights. It's not his fault.

It was probably that waitress

at Dodo's Diner. The blond?

She always looks at him funny when she

brings him his cheese melt. Hi, Mikey.

She makes me sick,

she's so sweet.

So sweet. Like the devil

in devil's food cake.

She just- She makes me wanna puke.

She makes me wanna vomit.

It's okay, Carla.

It's okay.

We deserve better,

that's for sure.

You know what?

No more time for losers, Carla.

Mm-mmm.

When one door closes,

another door opens.

Yeah, life is like a patio door. You

never know which side is gonna be open.

Mm-hmm, and you walk

into the glass.

Get your motor runnin'

Head out on the highway

Lookin'for adventure

In whatever comes our way

Yeah, darling

gonna make it happen

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Nia Vardalos

Antonia Eugenia "Nia" Vardalos is a Canadian-American actress, screenwriter, director, and producer of Greek descent. more…

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