Everybody's Talking About Jamie

[Opens Sept. 10 in theaters and available Sept. 17 on Amazon Prime Video.] Jonathan Butterell's charming, entertaining, factually based, coming-of-age, humor-punctuated, well-acted, 115-minute biographical musical adapted from the popular West End stage musical and the documentary Jamie: Drag Queen at 16 in which a gay, talented, 16-year-old British student (Max Harwood/Noah Leggott), who lives with his divorced mother (Sarah Lancashire) in Sheffield, England, and is estranged from his neglectful, homophobic, father (Ralph Ineson), dreams of being a drag queen and performing with female impersonators (Richard E. Grant, Ola Jide, Gareth Joyner, Dan Wallace, et al.) while being supported by his smart and witty best friend (Lauren Patel) and his mom's close friend (Shobna Gulati), picked on by the school bully (Samuel Bottomley), and unsupported by the school principal (Adeel Akhtar) and career counselor (Sharon Horgan) when he wants to wear a dress and glittering high heels to the prom.
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