Transamerica
Right in the midst of important changes in her life, pre-operative male-to-female Bree Osborne (Felicity Huffman) learns that 17 years ago, she fathered a son, Toby (Kevin Zegers), now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.
22 June 1952, Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, Canada
30 April 1940, New York City, New York, USA
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2 September 1947, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA
3 January 1984, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
25 January 1946, Portola, California, USA
20 February 1971, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
10 December 1941, Dublin, Ireland
16 January 1967, USA
16 June 1964, New York City, New York, USA
19 September 1984, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada
21 June 1967, Macon, Georgia, USA
July 10, 2007
A big part of the movie's success is Huffman's irresistible and remarkable performance as Bree, a character we identify with rather than feel alienated by.
February 02, 2006
Huffman's performance redeems parts of the movie but, until the final 30 minutes, Transamerica too often feels like a journey to nowhere.
January 20, 2006
As Bree, who started her unhappy life as Stanley, the angular Huffman, a fine comedic actress who carried home an Emmy this fall, is a compelling portrait of wounded dignity. She is wholly fascinating and heartbreaking.
March 01, 2007
A well-tuned vehicle.
August 10, 2007
Tucker's screenplay is sharp but also sensitive, so the ample good humour never drifts into high camp (apart from the scenes with Bree's mother - and SHE is straight).
February 02, 2006
It's funny in spots, touching in others and uniformly life-affirming.
January 27, 2006
Transamerica is a routine road-trip comedy-drama with a twist.
August 05, 2007
Comfort food for a comfortable audience, with the TV-familiar Huffman reassuring viewers that she's really a real woman underneath that unflattering make-up.
January 20, 2006
It's a farce with heart, a meditation on identity, family and gender politics that has real faith in its characters -- even when the characters themselves lack it.
January 20, 2006
Huffman's performance in Transamerica, as a pre-op male-to-female transsexual coping with the sudden emergence of a long-lost son, is much better than the movie it's in; indeed, she singlehandedly takes Transamerica to a higher plane.
