A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancé's conservative moralistic parents.
A 20-year-old man, whom we never see as a child, has been without his mother his whole life, even though she isn't far away and could easily have been in his life. He doesn't seem too emotionally affected by her absence, though.
No, but the topic is alluded to. At one point a character goads his partner, saying "hit me, you know you want to". It's portrayed as him just being a "drama queen".
We learn that a politician was with an underage prostitute, and we see a clip of her saying one sentence to the press about it - something like "He looked weird, but he was smiling, so I didn't worry." No abuse on screen.
Subverted in that a character is shown to be taking medication for emotional stress, but it's just aspirin with two letters scraped off. It's played for laughs.
There is suspected cheating and one of the characters in the main relationship has had sex with a woman in the past but he makes it clear that he is only interested in men
No, but suicide is mentioned and a character at one point implies they are planning for their death, saying they’re going to the cemetery because their feel unwanted.
Copy of someone else's well-phrased comment, which was mistakenly placed under a different question: "Played for laughs but a major character who is a drag actor is implied to partly identify as female and shows insecurities regarding their age and condition."
Played for laughs but a major character who is a drag actor is implied to partly identify as female and shows insecurities regarding their age and condition.
No, but here are the times with lights: when the performers are on stage at the cabaret there are times when there are white and/or colored lights on them. They don't flash. At one point (very early in the movie) a large spotlight is shown moving slowly and it looks like it might face directly into the camera for a moment. I don't know if it does. I closed my eyes since that would've caused me a migraine, but if it does face the camera it's easy to avoid.
At one point Barbara's dad, the Senator, tells his wife & daughter that he's going to go out the window and down a ladder to avoid the press and to have the car pick him up out of sight. Once he goes out the window there are lots of press and many many camera flashes. It wasn't awful but I did get nervous & wear sunglasses for that part (better safe than sorry with lights).
Nothing violent, but a Jewish family lies about their last name and history to present a more "conservatively American" version of themselves for an evening, as their guests are somewhat antisemitic.