Product description

After heading to Europe for a sex change operation, Myron Breckinridge returns to America as Myra, a man hating woman after her uncle's fortune.
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish/misc SA
Rating: R
Release Date: 9-MAR-2004
Media Type: DVD

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We can safely call it one of the most notorious films in Hollywood history: Myra Breckenridge, the wild, tasteless, legendary disaster. Sprung from a novel by Gore Vidal, Myra tells the tender tale of a man (damply played by film critic Rex Reed) who has a sex-change operation and goes to Hollywood as a woman--played by Raquel Welch. Mae West creaked out of retirement to play a man-hungry agent (one of her meals is young Tom Selleck), and John Huston is an aging cowboy star, Myra's nemesis. To say the movie endorses the destruction of sex roles in modern society would be giving the rampant incoherence too much credit. Old film clips, plus footage (all too apt!) of atomic bomb tests are spliced into the action, to puerile effect. Almost everybody involved with the film disowned it, especially a horrified Vidal. Is there a cult for this movie? They can have it. --Robert Horton

Set Contains:

Pretty good extras for a celebrated bomb, including an AMC "Backstory" episode detailing the disintegration of shooting, a director's commentary by Michael Sarne (the man most credited for the train wreck), and a bewildered but amused commentary by Raquel Welch, who explains that she thought she was going to play both male and female roles when she signed on for the picture. It couldn't have hurt. --Robert Horton, ISBN13: B00018D3YQ ISBN10: B00018D3YQ Material Type: dvd