Transamerica

A pre-op transsexual finds out she has a son and in order to get the letter from her psychiatrist required for her to undergo surgery and , to cut a long story short, she has to go on a road trip across America with him. Everybody learns something and comes out of the experience better.

I spent much of this film wondering about the logic of getting Felicity Huffman to play the role of a man dressed as a woman when they probably could have got a man to do it, but I guess that it helps the viewer to think of her as female as most of the characters do through the film and Huffman's performance is very good.

Anyway, Transamerica suffers from the same thing that a lot of US vaguely indie films do in that it's a bit too mannered. But hey, whilst studiously avoiding being either laugh out loud funny or particularly emotionally engaging it's generally entertaining for the duration and it's hard to dislike the film.

Worth checking out when it inevitably crops up in Film 4's next 'American Misfits' season or whatever.


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