Who Is KK Downey? (2008)

Directed by

Pat Kiely, Darren Curtis

Genre

comedy film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

4.5 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two friends invent a fictional transgender street prostitute author to sell a novel. One of them dresses in drag to play the author in public. A journalist becomes suspicious and tries to uncover the truth.

satiricalwryplayfulmetairreverentsharpcomedic

What happens

Who Is KK Downey? is a 2008 comedy film directed by Pat Kiely and Darren Curtis. It was produced in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Loosely based on the JT Leroy controversy, the film stars Darren Curtis and Matt Silver as Terrance Permenstein and Theo Huxtable, two friends who invent the character of KK Downey, a transgender street prostitute, as the "author" of Theo's novel Truck Stop Hustler after it gets rejected by a publisher because Theo comes across too white and middle-class to be believable as the writer of a book about street life, with Terrance donning drag to play Downey. Kiely also stars as Connor Rooney, a music journalist who becomes suspicious of Downey's story and tries to hunt down the truth. The film was created through the Montreal comedy troupe Kidnapper Films. Paul Spence, Brent Skagford and Dan Beirne also appear in supporting roles. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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