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Following its spectacular reception at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival, this extraordinary road-trip-comedy tells the story of Bree (FELICITY HUFFMAN), a prim, prudish and persnickety male-to-female transsexual, who, after years of saving money, is only a week away from her final SEXUAL-REASSIGNMENT SURGERY. When an unexpected call comes from a teenager incarcerated in a New York jail, Bree learns to her dismay that a fumbling sexual encounter 17 years before (when she was a he) resulted in the birth of a son. Though Bree wants nothing to do with the teenage runaway, her therapist (ELIZABETH PENA) tells her she must face HER PAST before she’ll authorize Bree’s surgery. Bree reluctantly journeys to New York and bails her wild son Toby (KEVIN ZEGERS) out of jail – but without revealing to him her true identity. When she learns that Toby plans to skip bail and search for his real father, Bree panics – and finds herself setting out on A REMARKABLE cross-country journey.Along the way she and Toby have all sorts of adventures, including a hilarious dinner with Bree’s disapproving parents (FIONNULA FLANAGAN and BURT YOUNG), amorous advances from a kind hearted Native American looking for a soul mate (GRAHAM GREENE), and the ultimate ‘Crying Game’ style revelation.

Funny, intelligent, emotional and beautifully crafted, TRANSAMERICA redefines the parent / child bonding movie genre. A true crowd-pleaser, it keeps you belly laughing throughout, while leaving you touched and moved by its magnetic charm.