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| Category | Comedies DVDs, Dramas Movies, Christianity Videos, Small Town Life, Road Trips, Road Movies | | Starring | Fionnula Flanagan, Felicity Huffman, Burt Young, Graham Greene, Elizabeth Pena, Kevin Zegers, Amanda Addams | | Director | Duncan Tucker | | Composer | David Mansfield | | Director of Photography | Stephen Kazmierski | | Producer | Rene Bastin, Sebastian Dungan, Linda Moran | | Screenwriter | Duncan Tucker |
Closed Captioned; Soundtrack English Felicity Huffman leaves the glamor of DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES behind and makes a surprising diversion with this offbeat film. Playing an uptight male-to-female transsexual named Sabrina "Bree" Osbourne (née Stanley), Huffman gives a remarkable performance. Readying herself for the final snip that will make her womanly transformation complete, Bree's life takes a sudden turn when she receives a phone call from New York. Her son, Toby (Kevin Zegers), has been jailed, and Bree needs to post bail for him. The only problem is, Bree didn't know she had a son, but her therapist refuses to give her written permission to have the final part of her sex-change operation if she doesn't go, so Bree heads east from her California home. Thinking Bree is a Christian missionary, gay hustler Toby informs her of his intention to become a porn star on the west coast, which brings out plenty of motherly instincts in the worried cross-gender father. So the two take a road trip back west, with Bree unable to tell Toby the truths about who she is and what she once was.
Writer/director Duncan Tucker gets the balance between comedy and drama just right as he gently squeezes Bree's various revelations to Toby onto the screen. But it's Huffman who really shines, with her vocal inflections, makeup, and acting skills perfectly combining to give a convincing performance as the ultraconservative Bree. Tucker doesn't focus too much on Bree's gender-hopping, instead crafting an emotional portrait of a highly dysfunctional family, while constantly dragging his audience back from the brink by weaving a killer laugh-out-loud line into the plot. A fine supporting cast--in particular Fionnula Flanagan (THE OTHERS) as Bree's hilariously overbearing mother--helps to deflect from the film's low-budget origins, with pithy dialogue and energetic performances combining to make TRANSAMERICA a wonderfully satisfying treat. Theatrical Release: DECEMBER 2, 2005 Transamerica Reviews: 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his exploration of family ties and the tensions that threaten them has a caustic honesty and an unexpectedly universal resonance."
-- Wendy Ide, Uncut "TRANSAMERICA affectionately delivers some familiar standards while twisting them with a new metrosexual spin."
-- Linda Ruth Williams, Sight and Sound "TRANSAMERICA features Felicity Huffman in an astonishing, believable, and Golden Globe-winning role."
-- Widescreen Review Staff, Widescreen Review 4 stars out of 5 -- "Handsomely shot, subtly scripted and evocatively scored with bluegrass, folk and country and western..."
-- Jamie Graham, Total Film 5 stars out of 5-- "[Huffman's] chameleon-like transfiguration is incredible, creating comedy and pathos in equal measure."
-- David MIller, Ultimate DVD "Huffman finds the dignity in this emerging woman, and Zegers is remarkably natural....The film builds to some touching moments between father/mother and son."
-- Stephen Farber, Movieline's Hollywood Life "For artistry and degree of technical difficulty, this judge awards Felicity Huffman a 10 for her performance in TRANSAMERICA." -- Grade: B-
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he movie's soul is Huffman....She turns this small, resonant film into a cry from the heart."
-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone "That the film succeeds without slipping too far into sentimentality or didacticism is in no small measure the result of Ms. Huffman's wit and grace."
-- A. O. Scott, New York Times
This is the only Amanda Addams video. Transamerica | List Price | $19.95 (You save $4.96) | | Studio | Genius Productions | | Orig Year | 2005 | | All Time Sales Rank |  16133  | | CD Universe Part number | 7053851 | | Catalog number | 7903 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | May 23, 2006 | | Rating | R (MPAA) | | Rating Reason | Sexuality, language, nudity, drug use | | Running Time | 103 Minutes | | Additional Info | Subtitled | | Movie Details | Color; Subtitled |
Transamerica Movie Review Average Rating: (4.5 out of 5 stars)   TransAmerica Will Have you transformed to the screen
TransAmerica is a truely heart touching, hilarious,tear jerking, riviting film that transends being merely a movie. It is the art of film making at its very best. Beautifly written, wonderfully acted and excellantly directed TransAmerica takes the typical "road movie" and adds a twist to the main character and the situations she has to face in life to create something more then just a road movie. Bree is a transgendered woman who is days away from the final surgery that will transform her completely into a woman. Then a phone call reveals to her that she has a son she didn't know existed. Keeping her real identity from her son she goes to get him out of jail in New York and take him back to California. On the trip back west Bree, Played by Felicity Huffman, gets to know her son. Along the way not only does Bree get to know who her son is she also finds out who she is as well. And we have the pleasure of getting to know both of them. This is no doubt in my mind a must see movie and worth everyone of the 5 stars I rated it.
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I didn't think I would like this film but I was wrong. I couldn't get my eyes of the TV screen, it was that good.
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