Prisoner Queen

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name = Prisoner Queen


caption =
director = Timothy Spanos
producer = Timothy Spanos
writer = Timothy Spanos
starring = Jude Kuring
Tim Burns
Matt Thomas
Polly Stanton
Michael Burkett
music = Jim Mariani
Matt Thomas
Biddy Connor
cinematography = Michael Schoell
editing = Timothy Spanos
distributor = Starbaby Film
released = 2004
runtime = 80 min.
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0368181

"Prisoner Queen" is a 2004 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368181/ IMDb Reference] ] black comedy film written and directed by cult movie director Timothy Spanos.

The film is a story about an old actress who is diagnosed with leukaemia. Her son Alex struggles to cope with her illness and escapes into a warped fantasy that he is living in the prison drama series that his mother once appeared in. By day he works as a waiter in a Melbourne cafe, where he acts out various scenario's to fussy customers and to a drug peddling co worker. By night, he dresses up as a prison officer and stalks the urban streets. Along the way he meets a variety of characters and becomes captivated with a transgender artist known as Miss Chrissy, who performs in drag as Chrissy Amphlett.

The films stars Jude Kuring, Tim Burns, Polly Stanton, Matt Thomas, Margo McLennan and Cameron Nugent.

"Prisoner Queen" screened in USA, Ireland, Germany, New Zealand, Canada and the UK. It screened once in Melbourne as part of the 2005 Melbourne Underground Film FestivalFact|date=May 2008.

Jude Kuring took on the role after a 20 year absence from acting.
Margo McLennan and Tim Burns appeared in a car commercial before working together again on this film.Melbourne actress Polly Stanton appears with her real life mother, Jill Forster in a scene where she is car jacked.Lead singer of The Mavis's, Matt Thomas plays a drag queen version of Divinyls lead singer Chrissy Amphlett.
Tim Burns, Matt Thomas, Michael Burkett and Polly Stanton all took on major roles in Spanos's next film Nancy Nancy.

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