Peoria Babylon is a 1997

1997 in film

-Events:* The original Star Wars trilogy's Special Editions are released.* Production begins on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.* Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1,000,000,000 at the box office making it the highest grossing film in history until Avatar broke the record in 2010.*...

 comedy-genre film. It premiered at the Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival in November 1997.

Plot

Candy and her gay friend Jon are owners of financially troubled art gallery in Peoria, Illinois. After exhausting their savings, they concoct a devious scheme in order to save the gallery in this screwball comedy.

They team up with a hunky con artist, the mob and a lesbian porn queen, but at the end little is left standing but their friendship.

Cast

• David Drake as Jon Ashe
• Ann Cusack
  Ann Cusack
  -Early life:Cusack was born in Brooklyn, New York, the sister of actors Joan, Bill, John and Susie. Her mother, Nancy, is a former mathematics teacher and political activist. Her father, Dick Cusack, was an actor, producer, and writer...
  
   as Candy Dineen
• Matthew Pestorius as Matthew Perretti
• Paul Adelstein
  Paul Adelstein
  Paul Adelstein is an American television and film actor, best known for the role of Agent Paul Kellerman in the television series, Prison Break, and his current role as pediatrician Cooper Freedman in the series Private Practice....
  
   as Brad Kessler
• The Lady Bunny as Octavia DiMare
• Marilyn Pittman as Doris Kessler
• Dan Turek as Bill
• Deane Clark as Raul Kessler
• Michael Hagedorn as Ted Jamison
• William McGough as Detective Dillon
• Andrew Carrillo as Cop
• Anna Markin as Tina Rotblatt
• David Gould
  David Gould
  David L. Gould was a Scottish American soccer player, coach and referee. He coached the U.S. national team at the 1934 FIFA World Cup and is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame. He was born in Galston, Scotland-Player:Gould grew up playing soccer in Scotland before moving to the United...
  
   as Stanley
• Tom Ciappa as Private Dick
• William Graham Cole as Swensen
• Helen Caro as Adele
• Kel Mitchell
  Kel Mitchell
  Kel Johari Mitchell is an American actor, comedian, singer, rapper, screenwriter, producer, parodist, dancer and musician. He was best known for his work as a regular cast member of the Nickelodeon sketch comedy series All That, his portrayal of Kel Kimble on the Nickelodeon sitcom Kenan & Kel,...
  
   as Beave
• Jeff Kenny as Willie
• Sam Perry as Minister
• Hank Donat as Poet
• Nikki Lewis as Sandy
• Lou Wynhoff as Museum Guard
• Ted Lyde as Wayne
• Wendy Lucker as Reporter
• Tom Holycross as Cop #2
• Dan Callahan as Drag Queen
• M.J. Loheed as German Tourist
• Aja as Drag Queen #2
• Tom Phisella as Hick Man
• Rita Symons as Hick Woman
• Phyllis Diller
  Phyllis Diller
  Phyllis Diller is an American actress and comedian. She created a stage persona of a wild-haired, eccentrically dressed housewife who makes jokes about a husband named "Fang" while pretending to smoke from a long cigarette holder...
  
  as Painting Owner