The Iron Ladies

Name: The Iron Ladies
Genre: Comedy
Released: September 7, 2001
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 50
Cast: Jesdaporn Pholdee, Sahaphap Tor

2001

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: September 7, 2001

Starring: Jesdaporn Pholdee, Sahaphap Tor

Summary: Tells the true story of a Thai male volleyball team that won the national championships in 1996 with a team consisting mostly of gay men, drag queens, and transsexuals.

Director: Yongyoot Thongkongtoon

Genre(s): Comedy

Runtime: 104 min

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New Times (L.A.) David Ehrenstein

Where The Iron Ladies makes its mark, and holds our interest, is in the way it integrates old-fashioned "low" comedy with social observation.

Carla Meyer

Queeny, corny and impossible to resist. Read full review

Kevin Thomas

It is high-energy entertainment that is also silly and sentimental and so over-the-top as to become wearying at times. But that it is also funny and good-natured ends up counting more. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

It's a frequently funny diversion that doesn't have a mean-spirited bone in its body. Read full review

Mark Peranson

Two interesting asides: the director and most of the cast aren't gay, and the film is based on a true story from 1996 -- the real Iron Ladies are shown, too briefly, during the closing credits. Read full review

Jessica Winter

We get a bunch of straight actors focusing on the "gayness" of their characters, mincing and lisping and melodramatically breaking nails, all in the besmirched name of tolerance. Read full review

Chuck Wilson

A surprise hit in Thailand, the film is nonetheless a reductive mess. Read full review

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