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TransAmerica
The Weinstein Company LLC / IFC Films
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FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for sexual content, nudity, language and drug use
Starring
Felicity Huffman,
Kevin Zegers,
Fionnula Flanagan,
Graham Greene,
Burt Young,
Elizabeth Peña,
Carrie Preston,
and
Grant Monohon
Bree (Huffman) is a perfectly adjusted conservative transsexual woman. Born Stanley, a genetic male, she's about to tale the final step to becoming the woman Stanley always wanted to be - until she finds out that she is the parent of a long-lost 17 year-old son (Zegers). Afraid to tell the rebellious teenager the truth, Bree embarks on a journey with him that will challenge and change both their lives and bring them closer to the truth of their connection. (The Weinstein Company / IFC Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Duncan Tucker
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Duncan Tucker
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: May 23, 2006
Theatrical: December 2, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
103 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
Best Actress (Huffman), 2005 Tribeca Film Festival; Best Screenplay, 2005 Deauville Film Festival

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
83
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Until it detours into dysfunctional-family comedy-drama, Transamerica rides cross-country without ever running low on bracing, cactus-spined surprises.

80
Film Threat
Elias Savada
Transamerica is a modern-day Sullivan's Travels.

80
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
Impressively realized on all levels, this transgender spin on the road trip boasts an extraordinary central performance.

80
Variety
Eddie Cockrell
Laugh-out-loud funny, tartly off-color and ultimately touching.

80
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
This debut feature left me in a state of movie euphoria. Who could have guessed that such a discomfiting premise would blossom into a deadpan-hilarious and yet deeply affecting story about a singular glitch in the human condition?
80
Time
Joel Stein
But the most impressive thing is how, a few minutes into the film, you stop noticing Huffman's external transformations and start to focus on the character. Not that the external stuff isn't impressive.

75
TV Guide
Ken Fox
A flawed but nevertheless endearing father-son road trip with a distinctive twist.

75
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
This drama offers a chuckle at every turn.

75
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The movie's soul is with Huffman. Speaking in a low voice, her posture as stiff as her vocabulary, her eyes a pool of sadness and hope, she turns this small, resonant film into a cry from the heart.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Transamerica provides the frame and the occasion for one of the year's best performances, Felicity Huffman's as a woman trapped in a man's body who's passing for female while awaiting a sex-change operation.

75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
What a fine, tender, delicate, funny, gender-bending-and-rebending performance this is.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
What Felicity Huffman brings to Bree is the newness of a Jane Austen heroine. She has been waiting a long time to be an ingenue, and what an irony that she must begin as a mother.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
It's a farce with heart, a meditation on identity, family and gender politics that has real faith in its characters - even when the characters themselves lack it.

75
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
It's debatable whether watching Huffman get dressed, take hormones, and learn to use a more feminine diction could sustain an entire movie, but the character is certainly a creation more original than a lot of the film itself.

75
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
A perfect example of an ordinary movie made unique by the powerhouse performance of its lead.

75
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
Despite its subject matter, Transamerica is a surprisingly funny movie, because Tucker never lets the pathos overwhelm his sense of humor.

70
Dallas Observer
Bill Gallo
You might feel constrained when it comes to a standing ovation, but there's certainly enough substance and yuk here to go along for the ride.

70
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
If Tucker's road map often feels a little too confining and the screwball comedy too contrived, he can take credit for introducing viewers to a character they have almost certainly never met before.

70
Slate
David Edelstein
Farce born of sadly irreconcilable impulses: Bravo!

70
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
The real success of Duncan Tucker, who wrote and directed this debut feature, is that, through credible dialogue and sensitive performances, the basic idea overcomes its cleverness and is affecting.

70
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Transamerica itself does not always live up to its star, but it is touching and sometimes funny, despite its overall air of indie earnestness.

70
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Transamerica is about as sexual as "The Brady Bunch." It's about an intelligent woman in excruciating transition to a new body that will line up with an identity she's held all along.

67
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
The best, and perhaps the only, reason to see Duncan Tucker's Transamerica is for Felicity Huffman's touching, shape-shifting performance.

67
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The unintended effect of all the melodramatic complications in Transamerica is, oddly, to distract attention from an understanding of exactly what that courage really costs.

67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
It may not exactly be a traditional love letter to his wife but actor-turned-executive producer William H. Macy has given her a plum part as Bree in screenwriter-director Duncan Tucker's offbeat road movie.

63
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Huffman is a woman playing a man playing a woman, which is easily the year's most complicated turn. She does a fine, nuanced job in bringing to life a character that could have become a caricature.

63
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
As much heralded, "edgy" movies go, Transamerica fails to live up to expectations.

60
Empire
Olly Richards
This is actually a very middle-of-the-road movie.

60
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Felicity Huffman is such a wonder, at once funny and brave, playing a pre-op male-to-female transsexual in the uneven comedy Transamerica that she sustains several lapses that might otherwise have sunk it.

60
Chicago Reader
Martin Rubin
An occasionally touching, more often clumsy variation on the formula of crusty oldster and problem child bonding on a road trip. The main reason to see it is "Desperate Housewives" star Felicity Huffman.

60
Village Voice
Ben Kenigsberg
Pleasant even without reaching much of a destination, Transamerica leaves the basic impression that it's not as self-satisfied as it could have been.

60
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Never lets us forget that it's a nonmainstream story about a nonmainstream subject, when ideally, it should simply be a story about a person. The picture too often feels like a lesson in tolerance.

50
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Huffman intermittently rescues Transamerica from bathos with her brusque wit, swatting away the victimization elements that figure into most films about transsexuals.

50
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Like a preoperative transsexual, Transamerica is neither one thing nor the other. It yanks at the heartstrings too much to qualify as an edgy comedy-drama, but it's far too bawdy to make it to the Hallmark Channel.

50
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
By the way, the other thing that keeps Transamerica from being a mainstream movie is its obsession with penises: showing them, talking about them, placing us in bathrooms and trailers when they're in use.

50
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Writer-director Duncan Tucker does little to develop his narrative setup beyond the basic and obvious, and his film begins to feel more like an exercise than a fully realized story.

50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
At its best, Transamerica made me laugh and feel for Bree. At its worst, it made me cringe at the potential creepiness of its central relationship.


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