Hey, I was watching the Logo channel while in Virginia for a week to see some friends n family...and....well, I watched the GLAD Awards....this movie TransAmerica won several nominations, as well as actual awards...
I'm just wondering if anyone on this board saw the movie and what they think about it. Maybe they can also explain a little of what it's about, :lol: .
From the imdb:
One week before her sex-change operation, Bree receives a call from a 17-year-old identifying himself as her son from a college liaison. Bree's psychiatrist won't approve the surgery until Bree deals with this relationship, so Bree flies to New York City, bails the youth out of juvenile detention, and offers him a ride back to Los Angeles without disclosing that she is his father. Both her plans and his go awry, and as secrets will out, what might become a friendship (or more) founders. The lad's step-father, a sex-change support group, a peyote eater, a Navajo wrangler, and Bree's family all play their parts in this exploration of family, gender, and expectations.
The movie is very good, but the reason to see it is for Felicity Huffman's performance as Bree. She is SO convincing as a transexual, she puts almost every other actor who has ever played one to shame (exception: Lee Pace in "Soldier's Girl"). She captures the vocals of a man trying to raise the pitch of his voice to sound more like a woman, and the physicality of trying to appear delicate and smaller. No offense to the actress who played Arun in S7 of BG, but she could learn a few things from Felicity.
Abzug is right on with her praise of Felicity Huffman's performance. I went to this movie with 3 friends. Two of which had heard nothing about it. After the movie, one of the two asked me who the "actor" was who played the main character, implying it was a man. She were so convinced that it was a man, when I told her it was Felicity Huffman, she at first did not believe me. For Felicity Huffman, that might have been the ultimate compliment.
Wow, sounds like a powerful story, then !
I shall have to have a butcher's sometime....