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Normal
- Director: Jane Anderson
- Writer: Jane Anderson
- Producer: Cary Brokaw; Thomas J. Busch
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Randall Arney who plays the Reverend...single-handedly makes this into a laughing stock - which is a failing of the director...one of the many.
The script, in places, is downright bizarre but then the story is teetering on the edge of the absurd - as is the casting, Lange is fine and does a good job...but, Wilkinson!!!
The perversity of the film is the excruciating wait until Wilkinson finally becomes a reconstructed dame.
You would be forgiven if you thought that this was a comedy - it is truly hysterical at times - unfortunately, this was not the intention.
Possibly, one of the most ludicrous and incompetent films ever made.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
In the countryside of the United States of America, Irma Applewood and her husband Roy Applewood have been happily married for twenty-five years and they are model citizens in their community. Roy brings Irma to meet Reverend Dale Muncie, who is their pastor and friend, to tell that he is a woman trapped in a man's body and he will have a sex-change operation. Now Roy has to face the deception of his wife and the intolerance of his colleagues, members of his church and his son Wayne. But Irma loves him and after the impact of the news, she understands and supports him with their teenage daughter Patty Ann (Hayden Panettiere) and Roy's boss Frank ('Clancy Brown') that is their friend.
Cast & Characters
Richard Bull as Roy Sr.;
Mary Seibel as Em - Roy's Mother;
Danny Goldring as Church Friend Pete;
Jessica Lange as Irma Applewood;
Tom Wilkinson as Roy 'Ruth' Applewood;
Hayden Panettiere as Patty Ann Applewood;
Randall Arney as Reverend Dale Muncie;
Rich Komenich as Co-Worker Bob;
Kirk Anderson as Machinist;
Christian Ambrose as Band Member #1;
Joe Foust as Roadie #1;
Sean Rice as Band Member #2;
Mickey Tuman as Roadie #2;
Joseph Sikora as Wayne Applewood;
Clancy Brown as Frank