Harvey Fierstein’s breakthrough Tony Award-winning play about the life and loves of the most lovable drag queen in Brooklyn reaches the screen with most of the play’s warm humour and acute insights intact. Fierstein, in a partly autobiographical role, is both touching and hilarious as Arnold Beckoff, whose life is presented in three, non-episodic acts. The story examines his relationships with his bisexual boyfriend (Brain Kerwin), gay lover (Matthew Broderick) and mother (Anne Bancroft).