Holiday Heart is a 2000 TV movie starring Ving Rhames, Alfre Woodard, and Mykelti Williamson. It was directed by Robert Townsend and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Based on a play by Cheryl L. West. It involves a gay drag queen befriending a single mother and her daughter and trying to protect them from the criminal environment around them.
Holiday Heart (Ving Rhames) is gay drag queen who performs at a night club. He is talented, tough, com...
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Holiday Heart is a 2000 TV movie starring Ving Rhames, Alfre Woodard, and Mykelti Williamson. It was directed by Robert Townsend and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Based on a play by Cheryl L. West. It involves a gay drag queen befriending a single mother and her daughter and trying to protect them from the criminal environment around them.
Holiday Heart (Ving Rhames) is gay drag queen who performs at a night club. He is talented, tough, compassionate and a dedicated Christian. After his boyfriend dies he befriends a down on her luck, drug addicted, single woman, Wanda (Alfre Woodard) and her young daughter Niki (Jessika Reynolds). Heart offers them a stable home and becomes a much needed father figure for Niki.
However, things go astray when the mother becomes addicted to drugs again and after a series of bad relationships, starts one up with a successful drug dealer Silas (Mykelti Williamson) who is as homophobic as he is chauvinist. Silas gives Holiday money and insists, with...
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