Flawless (feature film)

Flawless

Directed by Joel Schumacher.  Performances by Robert DeNiro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Miller.  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. 1999.  111 min.  Crime / Drama.  

When the once highly decorated police officer Walter Koontz (Robert de Niro) suffers a stroke while attempting to aid a neighbor, an unorthodox form of therapy is prescribed to help him overcome a resulting speech impediment. The suggested therapy becomes even more unorthodox when Walter asks his neighbor, Rusty (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a flamboyant drag queen with musical talent (and the past recipient of Walter's ire) for help. The unlikely arrangement soon mellows into a grudging friendship in writer/director Joel Schumacher's Flawless.