Transamerica
(2005)
comedy drama
directed
by : Duncan Tucker
featuring
: Felicity Huffman - Kevin Zegers - Fionnula Flanagan - Elizabeth Pena
- Graham Greese
running
time : 1 hour 43 minutes
The first film by Duncan Tucker, Transamerica
stars Felicity Huffman as a pre-operative transsexual named Bree (whose
given name was Stanley). One week before going under the knife, Bree learns
that she fathered a boy who is now 17 and is in trouble with the law. Bree
would like to ignore this information, but is forced to meet the young
man, Toby (Kevin Zegers) by her analyst Margaret (Elizabeth Pena) who will
not allow the surgery to happen unless Bree meets him and confronts this
aspect of her past. Upon meeting, the son believes that Bree is simply
a do-gooder. She buys a car and the two road-trip back to her home in Los
Angeles, Bree all the while attempting to keep from Toby the truth of the
situation.