Bernadette/Ralph (Terence Stamp), Tick/Mitzi Del Bra (Hugo Weaving) and Adam/Felicia (Guy Pearce) are three transvestite artistes who are tired of not getting enough recognition for their performances in Sydney. One day, out of the blue, Tick/Mitzi accepts an offer to perform in Alice Springs in the middle of the Australian desert. The three of them pack up their cosmetics and costumes and travel through the Outback in a run-down bus. Soon, Tick/Mitzi’s secret comes out: he is married, and has a son in Alice Springs. On their journey through the Outback they dance with aborigines, and Tick loses a bet and must parade in his costume through a rural town. When the bus breaks down, Bernadette falls in love with the mechanic, Bob (Bill Hunter), who is married to an Asian ex-stripper whom Bob married in a state of complete inebriation. When his wife leaves him, Bob joins the three on the final leg to Alice Springs where Tick meets his family.

This inventive and funny Australian film about three drag performers braving the vast, rugged outback won the 1994 Academy Award for Costume Design.

Two drag-queens (Anthony/Mitzi and Adam/Felicia) and a transexual (Bernadette) contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a resort town in the remote Australian desert. They head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla. En route, it is discovered that the woman they've contracted with is Anthony's wife. Their bus breaks down, and is repaired by Bob, who travels on with them. Written by Randy Goldberg {goldberg@nymc.edu}

Three friends, three lives, one persuasion and a pink bus named Priscilla head into the Australian desert with their colourful, extravagant show in a road movie that brings culture clash to the forefront of a comedy of errors. A mixture of vast landscapes, narrow minds and a melancholy, reflective mood that with the help of a larger than life gal that is Priscilla she more than widens the comfort zones and finds not just new horizons but also finds that is lost. Written by Cinema_Fan

Stephan Elliott (EYE OF THE BEHOLDER) wrote and directed this tale of two drag queens and a transsexual that embark on a road trip to a remote resort town in the Australian desert on a bus christened Priscilla. When Anthony "Tick"/Mitzi (Hugo Weaving) is invited to perform in Alice Springs, he recruits flamboyant young stud Adam/Felicia (Guy Pearce) and the legendary, refined Bernadette (Terence Stamp) to join him. Mitzi, however, fails to disclose one important fact to his friends: his wife is the one who invited them to Alice Springs. With one big secret about to be revealed and another one up his sleeve, Mitzi is a little stressed. With long hours on the road ahead of them, the trio lip-synchs campy songs on the bus, creates fabulous costumes, and meets a multitude of colorful characters along the way. They party with friendly aborigines, are confronted by judgmental townspeople who are averse to drag queens, and meet Bob (Bill Hunter), a warmhearted mechanic and drag fan who joins them for the last leg of their trip when their bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Fantastic costumes and fabulous makeup abound, and fine performances are delivered all around. But perhaps most important are the implicit messages that families come in all forms, that friends can make a family, and that love really knows no boundaries.