Director: Duncan Tucker
Writer: Duncan Tucker
Bree Osbourne (Felicity Huffman) is going through changes, significant changes. Bree Osbourne was once Stanley Chupak, but Bree never believed that she was meant to be a man. Now, Bree has been approved for gender reassignment surgery but before her therapist allows her to proceed with the operation Bree must resolve one last issue from Stanley’s past.
Bree receives a phone call from a New York jail from Toby Wilkins. Toby (Kevin Zegers; Wrong Turn) is looking for Stanley, his biological father. Toby needs someone to bail him out of jail and Stanley is his lone resource. His mother committed suicide and his stepfather wants nothing to do with him. Toby has kept himself alive by committing petty crimes and prostituting himself.
Bree travels to New York posing as a Christian social worker and bails out Toby and tells Toby that they will travel back to California so he can be reunited with his real father; meanwhile Toby has his own agenda as he is hoping to break into the adult film business. It is a road trip that neither of them will ever forget.
Transamerica was quite funny. I’m not sure if that was the intention, although there are plenty of intentionally funny moments but there is a lot of humor to be found in the developing relationship between Bree and Toby, especially since the two are meeting for the first time and discovering what kind of person the other one is tornado-like fashion. It made for a nice character piece.
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