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Felicity Huffman received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her role as a pre-operative male-to-female transsexual who finds out he is the father of a teenage son a week before his operation.
Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.78:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Closed-captioned, Subtitled, Widescreen, Color, NTSC, Dolby, DVD
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 43 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ May 23, 2006
Actors ‏ : ‎ Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers, Fionnula Flanagan, Andrea James, Danny Burstein
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish
Language ‏ : ‎ Unqualified, English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Lisa's Skus
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000ETRCMQ
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
Reviewer: C. Collins
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: There is much to offer in this film about a parent who happens to be transgendered
Review: This film will surprise you with its honest, direct, engaging, heart-felt story. The script is clever and well written. The acting is superb and Felicity Huffman could not have done better. Hopefully the super job she did playing the transgender Bree will provide her with more opportunities to reveal her considerable talents. Kevin Zegers deserves praise for the excellent performance as Toby, Bree's son. It is highly recommended entertainment.Underneath the compelling storyline, there is an exploration of the concept of identity that is a great strength of the film. Bree was once a man named Stanley, reared in an upper middle-class home in Phoenix with a controlling Irish-Catholic mother and quite but supportive Jewish father. After ten years of college without ever getting a degree, Stanley flounders around in phone marketing and as Bree works in a Mexican restaurant as a waitress as part of the gender re-assignment process. But Bree is going into surgery thinking that this is the answer to her transgender sexual identity but also without regard to reconciling the past so that she moves toward the future with no burdens from her past clinging to her psychological well-being. This is the gift of the phone call from her son, locked up in NYC for street hustling. It is the reconciliation adventures with her son that eventually leads to the reconciliation with her parents and with herself.The character of Toby is equally complex in that he is a child that has been abandoned by his natural mother through her suicide and that has been sexually molested by his step-father until he runs away from home to escape the sexual abuse. A very painful and touching scene in the film is when Toby, finally grateful for the physical protection and parental disciplinary limits that Bree offers, offers the one thing he feels he has to offer, which is his body, to Bree. She realizes that his perception of her must be based on more honest information and she reveals that she is Toby's father.Bree has thought that the day after her sexual reassignment surgery would be the best day of her life, and yet when that day comes she cries with her therapist. She cries because whereas her body has now changed, she is unfulfilled as a parent, a role that she began to adopt in her journey across the USA with Toby. The film is reconciled around this issue rather than around the issue of sexual-reassignment. Toby needs a parent and he senses this and Bree has awakened not only to her new sexual identity role but also to her role as a parent, one that will greatly enhance her growth and fulfillment in life.It is the basic human fulfillment needs of all human beings that is the under grid of this excellent film, which has been made very entertaining by the less than typical story line and characters, the excellent script, and the outstanding performance of the actors.

Reviewer: John Erickson
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Heartfelt perfomance
Review: In a subject matter that usually tends to sensationalism or over the top campy portrayals, Ms Huffman has given Bree life. As a unassuming person simply trying to fit in and living stealth, Bree is usually quiet and unobtrusive, reserved and uses an economy of words, but those words are weighty, she often has a cutting wit while trying to retain composure. She is the perfect underdog working so hard to try to obtain her goals, quiet and yet so remarkably brilliant. This movie speaks to me about goals and growth and overcoming adversity. About responsibility, acceptance and even love. It speaks of the pain of life that intrudes and sometimes rules us. Bree becomes more beautiful as the adversity mounts because more and more her true self is allowed to come out, she learns to be comfortable as herself. Truth will out, a phrase from the Merchant of Venice comes to mind. How often when we fear the truth inspite of coming from an innocent or an unwitting happenstance, it becomes a destructive thing when finally finally it comes out. There the pain and fear in the waiting / holding off and the compounding when a lie is one of silence and omission. When it comes it is terrible. But it comes none the less.If you are transphobic but have some sense of open mindedness you might give this a try, it may help you understand those you do not know. If you are of the Abomination crowd, why bother, your mind is already made up, the last thing Our Savior would want you to do is have any compassion or understanding for such people. Christ without compassion is that your version of Christianity?If you have the concept of it is not authentic enough, write your own movie. Make it and we'll all hope for critical acclaim. Sometimes if you are too close to something you get a myopic view and don't see the big picture. If you concentrate on finding fault guess what you'll find. And you won't be able enjoy it because you won't see the good side.This was well done and clearly a subject that many cannot abide. OK start castigating me. Ready Set GO!

Reviewer: Kody A. Busboom
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Trans living
Review: This movie encapsulates a lot of what the trans women’s experience is in life. It will absolutely touch your heart and if you’re an older trans woman, it will absolutely resonate with you 100%.

Reviewer: Robert Hayes
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A quirky and endearing film about transsexuals
Review: Transsexuals aren't really a group of people that I can say I understand, but TRANSAMERICA did a pretty good job of helping me get what a trans person might go through. Felicity Huffman plays Bree, a pre-op transsexual woman who finds out she has a son that she fathered a long time ago. What ensues is a kind of road movie that shows how the relationship between that son and her develops. What really makes this film stand out is the excellent lead performance by Felicity Huffman who, despite being a woman, did a great job of portraying a pre-op transsexual. Maybe they could have gone with an actual trans person, but Felicity Huffman did just fine. I also thought the supporting cast did great as well. What didn't always work for me was some of the humor and situations that Bree and her son were put into. Due to being a road movie, the film also felt a bit episodic at times. And, when they arrive at Bree's parents' home the film got a little too melodramatic for my tastes. My favorite part of the film came before this part when Bree meets a kind Native American man in a bar after having her car stolen. He was able to see past Bree's exterior to what she was on the inside: a nice person deserving of respect just like everyone else. And I suppose if the film has a message that it wants to convey, it's that trans people are just as human as the rest of us and deserve the same respect afforded to everyone else who is "normal." Overall, I did enjoy the film although it goes some places dramatically that it didn't necessarily have to go. I don't really see this film having too wide of an audience, but this indie gem is well worth seeing nevertheless.

Reviewer: Liun.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Film spettacolare. Felicity Huffman straordinaria. Tocca temi importanti con leggerezza e mai volgarità. Due persone apparentemente diverse che durante un viaggio scoprono piano piano dei lati l'una dell'altro che hanno in comune. Un film nostalgico on the road da vedere assolutamente.

Reviewer: ks-koeln
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: "Transamerica" ist einer dieser kleinen, aber feinen Filme abseits des Mainstream, der viel mehr Beachtung verdient hätte.Dieses tragikomische Roadmovie der etwas anderen Art wird von der herausragenden Felicity Huffman getragen, die für ihre Leistung einen Golden Globe und noch weitere Filmpreise bekommen hat und auch für den Oscar nominiert war.Huffman gelingt der schwierige Spagat, als Frau zwar auch eine Frau darzustellen, die aber nun einmal als Mann geboren wurde und z.B. immer noch relativ maskuline Gesichtszüge trägt und natürlich auch noch eine männliche Stimme hat, da sich diese ja auch durch Hormonzugabe nicht verändert. Auch diese stimmliche Hürde meistert Huffman mit Bravour, wenn man sich den Originalton anhört - sie spricht tiefer als normalerweise, klingt also tatsächlich wie ein Mann, der wiederum in höherer Stimmlage, aber ohne Fistelstimme spricht.Die "Verzweifelte Hausfrau" Felicity Huffman hört sich also in ihrer Rolle nicht so an wie z.B. Tony Curtis und Jack Lemmon in "Manche mögen's heiß". ;-)Genial gewählt finde ich auch den - in diesem Fall doppeldeutigen - Titel, denn "Transamerica" bezieht sich zum einen ja auf die Fahrt von Bree und Toby quer durch die USA, aber natürlich auch auf Brees Transsexualität, denn sie wurde als Mann geboren, steht aber nun nach entsprechend langer Wartezeit inkl. der geforderten Therapiegespräche, der langfristigen Hormonbehandlungen usw. kurz vor ihrer endgültigen, also operativen Geschlechtsumwandlung. Dieses eigentlich ja doch recht schwierige Thema wird in "Transamerica" zwar ernst genommen, aber trotzdem ist der Film bei aller Ernsthaftigkeit doch sehr leicht, humorvoll und skurril wegen der teils absurden Situationen, die sich ergeben, weil Bree ihrem Sohn nicht erzählt, dass sie eigentlich sein Vater ist.Allein schon wegen Felicity Huffman, die für diese Rolle wirklich eine ideale Besetzung ist, kann ich den Film nur empfehlen.

Reviewer: S. Brown
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Reviewer: A from Canada
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Good story. This is a story about hope, second chances and being who you were meant to be. I liked how the director used the road trip as a backstory for that. The acting was incredible. Felicity huffman deserves every bit of praise for Bree, she helped bring her to life. Good character development. Bree is the lonely outcast of the family who is trying to transition to a woman. Toby is the teenager who has been let down by almost every adult figure in his life but learns to trust again. They are both lost and hiding from their past but by the end they find themselves. I also liked the music in this movie.

Reviewer: le ptit math
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Ce film est magnifique! Comment vivre sa vie quand on est pas dans le corpsdans lequel on doit la vivre... avec des surprises supplémentaires ....C'est beau, touchant, parfois triste, mais cela rentre complètement dans le cadrede l'histoire et ce n'est pas tiré dans le mélo. Vraiment un moment de détente, de bonheur,et de plaisir ...