THE PROM (L to R) MERYL STREEP as DEE DEE ALLEN, JAMES CORDEN as BARRY GLICKMAN in THE PROM. In the film adaptation, Corden plays Barry Glickman, a narcissistic gay man and one of the aforementioned Broadway actors who initially agree to help Emma solely in the hopes that their virtue signaling will help their respective stars burn brighter. Setting off for Indiana, the actors soon find themselves embroiled in a legal and media battle against the PTA from Emma’s school, which eventually ends when the school agrees to host an all-inclusive prom. Related: Netflix’s Cuties Makes Shortlist of French Films Considered For Submission To Academy Awards Related: Netflix’s Live-Action Cowboy Bebop Will Genderswap Gren from Male to Non-Binary!īased heavily on the 2010 Itawamba County School District prom controversy, ‘The Prom’ follows the story of four Broadway actors who, following a scathing review of their latest performance, search for a ‘cause’ to attach themselves to in order to improve their images.Īfter a brief search on Twitter, the four agree to lend their services to Emma, a teenage lesbian from Indiana whose prom was cancelled because she wanted to bring her girlfriend as her date. THE PROM (L to R) JAMES CORDEN as BARRY GLICKMAN, NICOLE KIDMAN as ANGIE DICKINSON, MERYL STREEP as DEE DEE ALLEN, KEEGAN-MICHAEL KEY as MR.