Transamerica (DVD)

Stanley is about to have an operation that will change him into Bree, the woman he always knew he was when he receives the fright of his life. He gets a phone call telling him the son he never knew he had is in prison in New York and needs bailing out. So he goes to the Big Apple, picks the boy up and drives cross-country to LA. But Bree can't bear to tell Toby who she really is, pretending to be a church missionary. But secrets have a nasty way ...
...Duncan Tucker creates a finely crafted, beautifully acted and very heartfelt movie with "Transamerica". He clearly feels deeply not only for Bree but also for estranged son Toby. His treatment of the pair tends towards the soft-hearted, suggesting that there is a clear link between where they come from and who they are. But this is tempered by their mutual discomfort that rears its head every time they seem to be making progress. However, budgetary ...

afy9mab 04.09.2006 · Read full review
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...I have just finished watching Transamerica and can now say that I am doing a review on a film I really enjoyed and liked. The film stars Felicity Huffman as a male-to-female transsexual called Sabrina, known in the film as Bree, formerly known as Stanley. The film pretty much gets started straight away showing Bree watching a video teaching voice exercises. The video that she is watching is actually a real clip by a woman named Andrea James and ...
...shows Bree working two jobs; I think the first part is really just to show the audience what her life is like. She works cleaning dishes in a restaurant and also telemarketing from home. Bree is a week away from her final operation, there is a short scene showing her going through an assessment, as she needs two signatures on an agreement, one from her doctor and one from her psychiatrist for the operation to go ahead. She receives one signature ...

Jo586 24.05.2007 · Read full review
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...my head hurts!- Transamerica is an enchanting tale of acceptance, redemption and the long pursuit of happiness with a fully fledged beating heart and one of the most astonishing performances of the year thus far. It's a beautifully balanced story of survival and love that has such affection for its leading characters and such sparkling humour that it would be easy to forget the films strong messages, if it didn't have such a strong moral basis and ...
...Unlike many typical 'issue' movies, Transamerica doesn't spend all its time trying to hammer an idea across, it leaves its creative flow to develop character and situations that gently push the audience towards a pleasing and satisfying conclusion. Both hysterical and devastating the film takes its audience on an emotional journey that's well fleshed out with observation comedy and intelligent pathos. Never being very provocative, this film won't ...

JayHall1991 10.04.2006 · Read full review
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I recently received this film as one of my rentals from tesco and decided to watch it whilst my Fiance was out as he was adamant that he wouldn't like it as it wasn't ''his kind of film''! I personally think he missed out as I thought this film to be excellent - not in a way that most people would say about a film that is full of action or sends you to tears but it was very thought provoking and I thought the main character played an excellent role. ...
...is in the middle of becoming a woman, Bree. Bree, as he already calls himself is played by Felicity Huffman who is more well known for her role as, funnily enough Bree, in Desperate Houswives. The week before Bree is to go in and have his surgery, he finds out by a phone call that he has a son from when he was in a relationship with a woman years previously and not only that this son is in prison in New York (Bree lives in LA). The film follows Bree ...

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...the past. Transamerica is one of those rare low key films that comes along and actually makes you question what you are seeing. With an astounding, and completely convincing, oddmark performance from famed Desperate Housewife Felicity Huffman, she carries the film on her shoulders with little support from the rest of the cast. Kevin Zegers is attractive enough as Toby, but he's left a little in the shadows by Huffman, who is a strong force with such ...
...job of placing his characters in middle America and making them fit despite their obvious differences. At the centre of this piece is a heartbreaking story about somebody who was born differently trying to gain acceptance in a world that still ridicules their existence, and what is believed to be their choices. Putting questions of gender-confusion into a script that so obviously aims to tickle your ribs could be a dangerous move, but due to Tucker's ...

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