Flawless

(MGM)

Robert De Niro sings, and his rasping, off-key efforts are right in tune with this discordant mess of clichés, sentiment, and hypocrisy that is Joel Schumacher's follow-up to 8MM. When Manhattan security guard Walt Koontz (De Niro) suffers a stroke, he's teamed up with drag queen Rusty (Philip Seymour Hoffman) for singing lessons as part of his therapy, and the two slowly put aside their mutual antipathy and prejudices and harmonize. The only thing that keeps the title from being totally ironic is the performance of Hoffman, though his drag act is even worse than De Niro's singing.