Transamerica (2005) 7/10

Starring : Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers, Elizabeth Peña, Fionnula Flanagan, Burt Young, Carrie Preston
Director : Duncan Tucker
Running Time : 100 mins

Pre-op transsexual Bree (Huffman) is about to have her final operation to become a woman when she discovers that she has a son called Toby (Zegers) from a past relationship. Her councillor Margaret (Pena) insists that Bree speaks to her son before the operation, so Bree meets up with Toby under the pretence of being a Christian missionary.

I didn’t expect to, but I actually found moments of this movie to be quite funny. Granted there were a lot of moments of high drama, and the subject matter itself is nothing to laugh at, but when you look past all the grim moments and terrible things some of the characters have to go through, this is quite a warm and touching movie with a nice ending that really does show hope for the future of both Bree and Toby.

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