Transamerica (Widescreen Edition)

Transamerica (Widescreen Edition)
by Duncan Tucker

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Actor: Andrea James, Danny Burstein, Felicity Huffman, Fionnula Flanagan, Kevin Zegers
Director: Duncan Tucker
Brand: HUFFMAN,FELICITY
Cinematographer: Stephen Kazmierski
Writer: Duncan Tucker
Producer: Linda Moran
Producer: Lucy Cooper
Producer: Rene Bastian
Producer: Sebastian Dungan
Producer: William H. Macy
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-23
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Weinstein Company

DVD Reviews of Transamerica (Widescreen Edition)

DVD Review: TRANSAMERICA DVD
Summary: 5 Stars

I am very happy with this product; it is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for your service. I will keep doing business as the need arises.

DVD Review: broad audience watching
Summary: 4 Stars

Having a borrowed library's copy watched instead finding time for own DVD had taken a couple of years.

A bit boring at start, this movie presents a very twisted story of sex-changing father travelling with unsuspicious son from New York to LA.

Incorporating of not-erotic sex scenes is natural and professional, making a work watching by a general broad audience.

DVD Review: I Actually Enjoyed This Film!!!
Summary: 4 Stars

I thought Felicity Huffman did an awesome job as Bree! Bree was my favorite character because you feel sorry for her/him. Bree is a transexual who is having surgery next week, until she finds out that she had a son 17 years ago named Toby. Bree's therapist makes her go see him. He is a hustler, and a bisexual. Bree wants to take Toby to his step-dad, but the step-dad did something bad to him a few years back. So, Bree decides to let him stay with her until they get to L.A. I highly recommend TRANSAMERICA!!!

DVD Review: Honest, true: Movie
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie is about the best movie I ever seen,and I think it had alot of detailes,to it and it made alot of sense.

DVD Review: Fantastic Film! Incredible performances!
Summary: 5 Stars

I've had my own prejudices of the transgendered world, and it's not hate, just more not getting it or understanding why someone would want to change their gender, on a personal note could never comprehend that. Gay is one thing, that's fine, you're attracted to who your attracted to, whatever, it's cool, that's understandable, but transgender is something else and has nothing to do with that. It's a whole new level. With that said, I was hesitant to watching this film because of the content, but I'm glad I finally did watch it, because I absolutely loved it. They made it in such a way that someone like me could comprehend what they could be going through and that I could connect to and say, okay yeah I get it, alright, that's fine.

The characters and the performances are completely natural and stellar. I'm amazed, between Felicity Huffman and Kevin Zegers, whom before this film I had never seen anything of either of these actors, but of course have heard of them, but wow, where have I been living, they were fantastic and finding the heart and the soul of these two very different people they were playing and they connected. This is a fantastic film that takes place on a road across the country, as the characters journey physically, they take a journey themselves personally. Worth seeing.

Description of Transamerica (Widescreen Edition)

Emmy? winner Felicity Huffman (Desperate Housewives) won the Best Actress (Drama) Golden Globe? Award for her "fiercely funny and deeply powerful" performance (Pete Hammond, Maxim) that is "thrilling to watch." (A.O. Scott, The New York Times) Huffman plays Bree Osbourne, a conservative transsexual woman, who learns she is the parent of a long-lost 17-year-old son (Kevin Zegers). The wheels of fortune take Bree and son on a cross-country adventure, including a memorable visit with Bree's parents, that will change both of their lives. A funny, touching, completely original look at the modern American family, "TRANSAMERICA will leave you in a state of movie euphoria. It's hilarious and deeply affecting." (Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal. "Felicity Huffman is incredible. One of the year's most unforgettable performances." -Stephen Mooallem, Interview

Felicity Huffman deserves every award she's received for her outstanding performance in Transamerica, a small but rich movie about Bree--formerly Stanley--a pre-operative male-to-female transexual awaiting gender-reassignment surgery who learns she has a wayward teenage son named Toby. When her therapist (Elizabeth Pe?a, Jacob's Ladder) strongarms Bree into facing her past, she bails Toby (Kevin Zegers, Dawn of the Dead) out of jail and they end up on a road trip across the country. Such a premise could feel forced, but the script and performances make it persuasive and natural. Bree wrestles with discomfort and compassion as she learns about Toby's own troubles, even while her own grow worse when she's forced to ask for help from her hostile parents (the superb Fionnula Flanagan, The Others, and Burt Young, Rocky). Transamerica doesn't push for any great catharsis, but instead slowly peels away the layers of Bree's defenses, laying bare her basic struggle for respect and a chance at happiness. In many ways it's a showy role, but Huffman (Desperate Housewives) keeps her acting simple, direct, and thoroughly compelling. --Bret Fetzer

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