It's a bummer, says one of the wives in a support group, "to find out that the other woman in his life is him." Interviews with four heterosexual cross-dressers are interwoven with a cornucopia of facts and loads of convention footage in Peter Schwartz and Ellen Sherman's offbeat documentary which was shown on Cinemax late last year. Often perceived as occupying the bottom rung of the social ladder, transvestites generally live with their "deep dark secret," though as All Dressed Up points out, some heterosexual crossdressers have some very understanding wives (one interviewee gets snippy with his wife while she's applying his make-up, which she takes in stride, when the normal response would be: "then powder your own nose, a-hole"). For the most part, the filmmakers get beyond the usual talk show trivia, but occasionally succumb to Geraldo-itis (as when the story follows one man "coming out" to his adult children). Still, visits to Miss Vera's Finishing School for Boys Who Want to Be Girls and tidbits such as the fact that low-end accessory breasts run $79.95 while the "Rolls Royce of boobs" costs $1,200 (per breast) keep All Dressed Up on the interesting side most of the time. Recommended. Aud: C, P. (R. Pitman)
All Dressed Up and No Place to Go
(1996) 72 min. $49.95. Cajun Films. PPR. Vol. 12, Issue 4
All Dressed Up and No Place to Go
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