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DVD Features:
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 43 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 23, 2006
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Lisa's Skus
- Packaging: Keep Case
- Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33
- Aspect Ratio: Widescreen - 1.85
- Audio:
- Closed Caption - English
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Subtitles - Spanish - Optional
- Additional Release Material:
- Bonus Footage: Behind the Scenes of the making of the music video
- Music Video: DOLLY PARTON - "Travelin' Through"
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Fionnula Flanagan & Felicity Huffman | |
Performer: | Graham Greene, Burt Young, Amanda Addams & Kevin Zegers | |
Directed by | Duncan Tucker | |
Screenwriting by | Duncan Tucker | |
Composition by | David Mansfield | |
Produced by | Rene Bastin, Linda Moran & Sebastian Dungan | |
Director of Photography: | Stephen Kazmierski |
Entertainment Reviews:
That the film succeeds without slipping too far into sentimentality or didacticism is in no small measure the result of Ms. Huffman's wit and grace.
New York Times
A well-tuned vehicle.
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Film Journal International
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.
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DVD Review
Rating: 3/5 --
Transamerica is a routine road-trip comedy-drama with a twist.
Orlando Sentinel
Lifetime through Sundance
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CinePassion
Bree was, and still is, an identifiable character in a movie that has aged well; credit for this lands solely in the lap of Felicity Huffman for her ability to turn a potentially clown-like depiction of a Trans woman into a loving mother.
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Gay Essential
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Huffman's performance redeems parts of the movie but, until the final 30 minutes, Transamerica too often feels like a journey to nowhere.
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ReelViews
Product Description:
Felicity Huffman leaves the glamor of DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES behind and makes a surprising diversion with this offbeat film. Playing an uptight male-to-female transsexual named Sabrina "Bree" Osbourne (née Stanley), Huffman gives a remarkable performance. Readying herself for the final snip that will make her womanly transformation complete, Bree's life takes a sudden turn when she receives a phone call from New York. Her son, Toby (Kevin Zegers), has been jailed, and Bree needs to post bail for him. The only problem is, Bree didn't know she had a son, but her therapist refuses to give her written permission to have the final part of her sex-change operation if she doesn't go, so Bree heads east from her California home. Thinking Bree is a Christian missionary, gay hustler Toby informs her of his intention to become a porn star on the west coast, which brings out plenty of motherly instincts in the worried cross-gender father. So the two take a road trip back west, with Bree unable to tell Toby the truths about who she is and what she once was.
Writer/director Duncan Tucker gets the balance between comedy and drama just right as he gently squeezes Bree's various revelations to Toby onto the screen. But it's Huffman who really shines, with her vocal inflections, makeup, and acting skills perfectly combining to give a convincing performance as the ultraconservative Bree. Tucker doesn't focus too much on Bree's gender-hopping, instead crafting an emotional portrait of a highly dysfunctional family, while constantly dragging his audience back from the brink by weaving a killer laugh-out-loud line into the plot. A fine supporting cast--in particular Fionnula Flanagan (THE OTHERS) as Bree's hilariously overbearing mother--helps to deflect from the film's low-budget origins, with pithy dialogue and energetic performances combining to make TRANSAMERICA a wonderfully satisfying treat.
Writer/director Duncan Tucker gets the balance between comedy and drama just right as he gently squeezes Bree's various revelations to Toby onto the screen. But it's Huffman who really shines, with her vocal inflections, makeup, and acting skills perfectly combining to give a convincing performance as the ultraconservative Bree. Tucker doesn't focus too much on Bree's gender-hopping, instead crafting an emotional portrait of a highly dysfunctional family, while constantly dragging his audience back from the brink by weaving a killer laugh-out-loud line into the plot. A fine supporting cast--in particular Fionnula Flanagan (THE OTHERS) as Bree's hilariously overbearing mother--helps to deflect from the film's low-budget origins, with pithy dialogue and energetic performances combining to make TRANSAMERICA a wonderfully satisfying treat.
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- Theatrical Release: DECEMBER 2, 2005
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- Sales Rank: 26,541
- UPC: 796019790390
- Shipping Weight: 0.40/lbs (approx)
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