Sleeping Beauties 1999

A mother tells her daughter a real-life fairy tale about a “Princess Charming” and her Sleeping Beauty. Heather [Sarah Lassez] is in love with her girlfriend Cindy [Radha Mitchell] until one day Cindy wakes up and breaks up with Heather, saying she wants a “real prince”. Heather works as a makeup artist at Rolling Headstones Funeral Home in Los Angeles, “making dead rock-stars look good” for their next album covers. One day she is working on the body of musician Sno Blo [Rose McGowan]. Her coworker Vince [Vince Vieluf] brings his new girlfriend to the funeral home. It is Cindy, who is moving back to Los Angeles and wants to be friends with Heather.

Before Sno Blo is buried, the band holds a photo shoot with her at her grave site. Heather does the makeup for the session. The photographer’s assistant Clea [Clea DuVall] flirts with Heather and hands her her telephone number, but Heather can only think about Cindy. Cindy arrives with Vince and tries to persuade the remaining members of the band to let her be their manager. When Vince ruins the opportunity for her, she grows angry with him and tells Heather she’ll be staying with her.

When Heather gets home, she finds Cindy sleeping in her bed. She kisses Cindy to wake her up, and asks for some kind of a response. Cindy tells Heather that she can kiss her if she wants to, but not to expect anything back from her. Heather tells Cindy to get out of her bed and she phones Clea. Later, Heather practices her makeup techniques on Clea and they share a kiss.

Throughout the story, Sno Blo and her band linger in the background, with Sno Blo Band [Nicole Eggert] and Sno Blo Band #2 [Leisha Hailey] contributing to the mood and scenes as supporting figures. In the end, the narrator Heather is joined by Clea to finish telling the story to their daughter.