Prisoner Queen (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Prisoner Queen is a 2004 black comedy film written and directed by cult movie director Timothy Spanos. The film is a story about an old actress who is diagnosed with leukaemia. Her son Alex struggles to cope with her illness and escapes into a warped fantasy that he is living in the prison drama series that his mother once appeared in. By day he works as a waiter in a Melbourne cafe, where he acts out various scenario's to fussy customers and to a drug peddling co worker. By night, he dresses up as a prison officer and stalks the urban streets. Along the way he meets a variety of characters and becomes captivated with a transgender artist known as Miss Chrissy, who performs in drag as Chrissy Amphlett. The films stars Jude Kuring, Tim Burns, Polly Stanton, Matt Thomas, Margo McLennan and Cameron Nugent.