Characters & Themes
Madame Wang’s (1981) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1981 · 96 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Paul Morrissey
- Starring
- Virginia Bruce, Joan Agajanian Quinn, Paul Ambrose, William Edgar, Susan Blond, Patrick Schoene
In Paul Morrissey's off‑beat comedy, a KGB operative arrives in California to rendezvous with Jane Fonda and lay the groundwork for a Soviet takeover of the United States. After losing his identification, he joins a rag‑tag band of homeless, overweight, older transvestites and ends up working as a punk‑styled employee in a Chinese restaurant run by the elderly trans‑woman Madame Wang.
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