home how it works subscription plans browse movies sign me up! log in
Gift


DETAILS

MPAA Rating - PG13

Length:
    101 Minutes

Genre:
    Comedy Drama

Original Release Date:
    Nov 18, 2003

Director
    Stefan Ruzowitzky

Cast
    Matt LeBlanc, Eddie Izzard, James Cosmo, Nicolette Krebitz, Udo Kier

 
Movie Summary
A few good men are sent on a secret mission as a few good women in this comic tale of wartime espionage, loosely based upon a true story. Steven ORourke (Matt LeBlanc) is an American intelligence agent who, during World War II, has been assigned to obtain an Enigma machine, a special encoding-and-decoding device that Axis forces have developed to transmit their most sensitive secret information. A working Enigma machine would be invaluable to the Allied cause; ORourke is able to obtain a machine, but Col. Aiken (Edward Fox), a British officer whose stiff upper lip sometimes overwhelms his common sense, mistakes ORourke for a plunderer and destroys the previous gadget, which is hidden in a typewriter. An altercation with Aiken lands ORourke in military prison, but hes released in time to carry out a new plan to obtain an Enigma for Allied use. A small factory has been set up in rural Germany to build the machines, which is entirely staffed by women, so ORourke, communications expert Johnno (David Birkin), and veteran intelligence man Archie (James Cosmo) are to infiltrate the plant disguised as women, with Tony (Eddie Izzard), an agent who moonlights as a drag performer, giving the men a crash course in looking and acting like women. All the Queens Men also features Nicolette Krebitz as Romy, a double agent working at the Enigma plant, and Udo Kier as Lansdorf, a Nazi general. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide


USER REVIEWS

No reviews posted


Want to write a review?

Ali [Director's Cut]

Tale of the Mummy

Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure

Dersu Uzala

Incredible Hulk: Original Television Premiere

101 Reykjavik