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Transamerica

Country: United States, Language: English, 103 mins

  • Director: Duncan Tucker
  • Writer: Duncan Tucker
  • Producer: Rene Bastian; Lucy Cooper

CGiii Comment

A worthy Oscar nominee...has a [slight} similarity to Priscilla - without the camp-ness and music.

A fine effort with some appreciable performances - deserving of more credit...and, a wider audience.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Southern Californian Bree Osbourne, formerly Stanley Chupak, has finally received the news for which she has been waiting: she has been approved for male-to-female sexual reassignment surgery. But before Margaret, her therapist, will allow her to go through with the surgery scheduled in a week's time, Bree has to deal with an unresolved problem from her past. Bree gets a telephone call from a seventeen year old man named Toby Wilkins, who is looking for Stanley, his biological father. Toby is in a New York jail, having been supporting himself by petty crime and hustling. Stanley/Bree knew nothing about Toby before the telephone call. Toby apparently is all alone in the world, with his mother having committed suicide and being estranged from his stepfather in Tennessee. Masquerading as a Christian social worker, Bree, not telling him either of her true identity or her transgender status, bails Toby out of jail and tells him she will take him to Los Angeles, where Toby has aspirations ...

Cast & Characters

Andrea James as Voice Coach;
Felicity Huffman as Bree;
Danny Burstein as Dr. Spikowsky;
Maurice Orozco as Fernando;
Elizabeth Pena as Margaret;
Craig Bockhorn as Sergeant;
Paul Borghese as New York City Cop;
Kevin Zegers as Toby;
Jon Budinoff as Alex;
Venida Evans as Arletty;
Raynor Scheine as Bobby Jensen;
Kate Bayley as Tennessee Waitress;
Stella Maeve as Taylor;
Teala Dunn as Little Girl;
Jim Frangione as Taylor's Father