Peoria Babylon is a 1997 American comedy directed by Steven Diller. It premiered at the Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival in November 1997.^[1] The cast features David Drake and Ann Cusack.^[2]

Candy and her gay friend Jon are owners of a 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.

• David Drake as Jon Ashe
• Ann Cusack as Candy Dineen
• Matthew Pestorius as Matthew Perretti
• Paul Adelstein 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 as Stanley
• Tom Ciappa as Private Dick
• William Graham Cole as Swensen
• Helen Caro as Adele
• Kel Mitchell 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 as Painting Owner
• Lora Adams as Angry Art Patron

The Chicago Tribune called it "…wonderfully funny…charming all the way around." (November 7, 1997) and the Chicago Sun-Times said that it was "Wacky and witty." (November 14, 1997).

In Media Audiences and Identity: Self-Construction in the Fan Experience, Steve Bailey states that "Peoria Babylon, aims its satire at the world of high art and the peculiarities of the international art market".^[3]