Flawless (1999 film)

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Flawless

Flawless Promotional Movie Poster
Directed by Joel Schumacher
Produced by Joel Schumacher
Written by Joel Schumacher
Starring Robert De Niro
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Barry Miller
Chris Bauer
Wilson Jermaine Heredia
Daphne Rubin-Vega
Penny Balfour
Music by Bruce Roberts
Cinematography Declan Quinn
Editing by Mark Stevens
Distributed by MGM
Release date(s) November 26, 1999
Running time 112 min.
Language English
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Flawless is an American film that stars Robert De Niro and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

The 1999 film features De Niro as Walter Koontz, a homophobic New York police officer who suffers a stroke that leaves him partially paralyzed and with a severe speech impairment. His doctor recommends singing lessons to help him improve the clarity of his speech. Too ashamed by his impairment to seek out a professional voice coach, he turns for help to his neighbor (played by Phillip S. Hoffman), a flamboyant pre-operative transsexual who is also a drag performer. In the course of their interactions, they discover that although they are each deeply prejudiced against one another, they also have a great deal in common.

Flawless was directed by Joel Schumacher, who also wrote the screenplay. Other cast members includes Daphne Rubin-Vega and Wilson Jermaine Heredia, both of whom starred (as Mimi and Angel, respectively) in the original 1996 production of the Broadway Musical Rent.

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Films directed by Joel Schumacher

The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981) • D.C. Cab (1983) • St. Elmo's Fire (1985) • The Lost Boys (1987) • Cousins (1989) • Flatliners (1990) • Dying Young (1991) • Falling Down (1993) • The Client (1994) • Batman Forever (1995) • A Time to Kill (1996) • Batman & Robin (1997) • 8mm (1999) • Flawless (1999) • Tigerland (2000) • Bad Company (2002) • Phone Booth (2003) • Veronica Guerin (2003) • Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004) • The Number 23 (2007)