Flawless

I rented this DVD on Lovefilm.  It is the story of a retired New York cop, played by Robert de Niro, who suffers a stroke and as part of his rehabilitation treatment he gets singing lessons from a drag queen, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, who lives across the hallway.  There is a background story of gangsters and money, but the real interest is in the unlikely friendship that builds between these two quite different characters.  I found the film entertaining but not absorbing.