Peoria Babylon
Directed bySteven Diller
Written bySteven Diller
Produced byMichael Caplan
StarringDavid Drake
Ann Cusack
The Lady Bunny
Matthew Pestorius
Paul Adelstein
Marilyn Pittman
Deane Clark
CinematographyErick Bergstrom
Edited byErick Bergstrom
Music byBradley Parker Sparrow Joanie Pallatto
Distributed byCulture Q Connection
Release date
  • November 1997 (1997-11)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Peoria Babylon is a 1997 American comedy directed by Steven Diller. It premiered at the Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival in November 1997.[1] The cast features David Drake and Ann Cusack.[2]

Plot

Candy and her gay friend Jon are owners of a financially troubled art gallery in Peoria, Illinois. After exhausting their savings, they concoct a devious scheme in order to save the gallery in this screwball comedy.

They team up with a hunky con artist, the mob and a lesbian porn queen, but at the end little is left standing but their friendship.

Cast

Reception

The Chicago Tribune called it "…wonderfully funny…charming all the way around." (November 7, 1997) and the Chicago Sun-Times said that it was "Wacky and witty." (November 14, 1997).

In Media Audiences and Identity: Self-Construction in the Fan Experience, Steve Bailey states that "Peoria Babylon, aims its satire at the world of high art and the peculiarities of the international art market".[3]

References

  1. ^ "Peoria Babylon, A Film about Sex, Art and Peoria, Illinois". Montrose Pictures. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
  2. ^ "NO DIFFICULTIES FOR TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES". Chicago Tribune. 1996-09-22. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
  3. ^ Bailey, Steve (8 September 2005). Media Audiences and Identity: Self-Construction in the Fan Experience. Macmillan. p. 89. ISBN 9781403945426.

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