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DVD of the Week
Transamerica
Felicity Huffman’s portrayal of a male-to-female transsexual in Transamerica is a powerful performance that the rest of the film spends most of its time trying to catch up with.
Huffman is convincing but the plot is not so: on the eve of an operation to complete her transformation, Bree (Huffman) is contacted by a young male hooker, Toby, who turns out to be her estranged son.
Her therapist refuses to sign the consent form until the two have made peace, so Bree poses as a Christian Samaritan and takes Toby on a road trip, refusing to reveal her true identity even at a transsexual convention, or when her shocked parents start cooing over the grotty teenager. |
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