TransTangent

Last night we watched Transamerica. Here's the imdb plot summary: "A pre-operative male-to-female transsexual takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she fathered a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York."

So it's basically your typical rediscovered long lost son/travel movie, with a transsexual thrown in for a twist. Felicity Huffman plays Bree/Stanley, the lead. I guess she filmed this right before starting on "Desperate Housewives."

The funny thing is, I'd interviewed two consecutive female to male transsexuals the other day (which prompted M-N to rent the dvd). Plus, we'd just done the same basic trip, east coast to west. Other things hit close to home, too:
Toby: Your parent's house is a lot nicer.
Bree: My parent's house comes with my parents.

Anyway, this was a good movie. The plotline is formulaic, but Huffman is very good, and there are several great small parts, especially Bree's parents and an unexpected party full of transsexuals.

The misadventures of the journey in this movie made our cross-country trek seem a little easier (not much easier, but we didn't have quite as many traumatic things going on... though we didn't have a crazy cat).