Product reviewsTransamerica (DVD, 2005)

Transamerica (2006, DVD)

I am a big Kevin Zegers fan and wanted to watch his performance in this film. I was not disappointed. The acting was excellent by the entire cast. They made me believe that a man could want to be a woman, and I felt the pain the parents went through.
This adult film includes teen sex, gay sex, and graphic male images. It is not a family film. The plot involves characterization of parents who are so one sided that they cannot accept their son's discomfort at being male. I think people have more depth that the two actors portrayed here. This was the only disjointed part of the film.
Kevin Zegers portrays a boy who sells himself to men for money. However, I felt the writing was weak, since he totally accepts this new 'woman' in his life and travels with her without ever really questioning why she is spending so much time and effort on him. His performance was very good and believable, though.
Felicity Huffman was excellent as the 'man' who became a woman. For someone interested in this type of film, it was intriguing.Read full review...

BEYOND THE STARS

Felicity Huffman portrays a "man" going through the change -- to become a woman.
If that were it, then it would be just another transgendered movie... but this real gurl shows that she' more woman then just another "Desperate Housewife" making movies for grins!

The film was done before making her debut on Desperate Housewives, and shows talents beyond the stars. The movie is original in its "characterization" of a man wanting desperately to become a real woman, and makes Julie Andrews from Victor/Victoria fame seem transparent. The depth of Felicity's role as "Brie" is believable, as she struggles to be the "father" her son never had... This works well, beyond the "cheap flicks" that have been made previously.... that portray transgendered roles as psycho-messes of society. Makes you really want this sex change to happen! See, fairy-tales can come true!

Recommended for all audiences - it's about time that real life comes to the big screen!Read full review...

ALL-IN-ONE FATHER-MOTHER-SON

Timely, Topical and Twisted,Transamerica delivers the entire package. A least for awhile. (LOL) Felicity Huffman plays a man waiting to become a woman.(Transexual) Even though she really is a woman. <br>Felicity earned an Oscar nomination (and should have won over spoiled Reese Witherspoon) and left her Desperate Housewives roots of glamour and shtick behind. She is wonderful in this family comedy/drama.
Bree (Huffman) sets out on a journey to find her son,Toby (Kevin Zegers) (one she never knew she had) and rescue him from drugs, turning tricks and gay porn. This mission will complete his requirements (post op) and give closure to the man who wants to become a woman.
Hottie Kevin Zegers, plays gay and the con-artist role very well. He tries to seduce his mother/father as they road trip back to Bree's California. Along the way we meet Bree's family. Her mother played by Fionnula Hughes is cunning British acting gone wild. (But she plays it with an American accent.)
We hear the theme song sung by Dolly Parton which adds to the this American road movie mystique.
As their adventures ensue, some typical cookie cutter movie HIGH-jinks happen while some of their other adventures will surprise and delight the viewers.
Kevin Zegers plays Toby and cements his place in American cinema along with Felicity Huffman.
Some people will hate this movie but it's themes are real and we realize as we watch it, the word family can encompass many people- chosen or otherwise. If we open our hearts and our minds, we find people, however different they may be, just trying to survive in world created by someone else.Read full review...

A touching eye-opener! Huffman is magnificent!!

This movie screams for a sequel. Felicity Huffman plays a difficult, often socially disdained role but comes out smelling like a rose! One cannot help but sympathize (or even fall in love) with the character, "Bree Osborne," as she struggles for identity. What is eye-opening is that the secret plight of transexual individuals is revealed as the movie unfolds. Kevin Zegers, Fionnula Flanigan, Burt Young, Elisabeth Pena and Graham Greene all add to the icing on the cake in their various supporting roles. Music by David Mansfield adds just the right touch. A few of the scenes can be jarring to the unprepared viewer but they are necessary to strengthen the role that Huffman plays. There's subtle comedy mixed with bites of drama throughout giving it just the right balance. Huffman is magnificent because she is a genuine woman playing the role of a man who is undergoing the final stages of the metamorphosis into a woman. Nothing less can be said about the special voice Huffman developed and uses consistently to support her role; it took tremendous effort! Noticeably, a low budget movie but it still earns five stars!Read full review...

Transamerica

It Shows the daily struggles of transgender persons and the dishonesty of women whom do not tell the real fathers of their pregnancy and the child borned. The movie is about a 17 year old boy whom was molested by the stepfather while growwing up and chose the wrong path after his mother dies. The boy chose the streets to suvive in this cruel world. The man chose to cross over into the wonderful world of female harmones. I'll never understand it but this movie allows me to see the pain and fustration of what one goes through. I have a cousin that has had the surgery and I try to understand why men want to be women(peiods and all) A real woman can either be a female or a lady. These people see the glamour of ladyship and not the sweat and blood that women have endured over the last centuries. They see the sissyness of wearing dresses and ect. and yet act so ladylike as if though in pretense. This character has no father instincts at all. I loved the movie.Read full review...

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Disappointing

After all I'd heard of this film, I was really anxious to view it. How disappointing it turned out to be. It was full of inaccuracies and cliche both in content and portrayal. Too bad such a popular movie couldn't have depicted a more accurate description of the life of a transsexual. No one did their homework on this one - neither director nor actors. Double thumbs down on this. Don't waste your time or money.Read full review...

There are those films that just stay in my memory....

I honestly couldn't tell you anything about some of the movies I've seen in the past year. Some of the films are just so bad that my memory seems to just erase the movie from my consciousness. Ask me what "Silent Hill" or "Loaded Weapon 1" was about, and I honestly couldn't tell you. I know I saw the films, but they were so bad I forgot the plots and actors involved.

I won't be forgetting about "Transamerica" anytime soon. It's simply a near perfect movie. I think just about everyone can relate to the characters in this film, even though we may be nothing like them.Read full review...

TransAmerica

Finally, a motion picture that captures the inner feelings of a transgendered person and the lives that change with the transformation. Felicity Huffman captured the essence of the male-to-female crossover with charm, elegance and respect. Not a cheap shot at the transgendered populace, TransAmerica also shows, in a time-compressed manner, the change that family sometimes goes through, once the "secret" is out. We see the social engendered transformation to the end of the film. It deserved more than just a handful of award nominations last year (2008). Every family who has a transgendered person within should see this movie, then embrace that person for the courage to make the transition, rather than suffer in silence and encumber further silent sadness.Read full review...

worth a look

Very good movie. Felicty Huffman dose a good job portraying a transgender woman.

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