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Victor/Victoria

Victor/Victoria

Music · Comedy · Romance · 1982

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.

Movie details

Victor/Victoria

“The disguise surprise comedy of the year!”

1982 Music · Comedy · Romance 2h 14m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

7.6 / 10

25.9K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

85 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

84 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

7.3 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

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The archetype split

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Blake Edwards

Written by

Blake Edwards

Julie Andrews

Julie Andrews

Victoria Grant / Count Victor Grazinsky

James Garner

James Garner

King Marchand

Robert Preston

Robert Preston

Carroll 'Toddy' Todd

Lesley Ann Warren

Lesley Ann Warren

Norma Cassady

Alex Karras

Alex Karras

'Squash' Bernstein

John Rhys-Davies

John Rhys-Davies

André Cassell

Graham Stark

Graham Stark

Waiter

Court is in session

Put Victor/Victoria on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.