transamerica (2005)

Transamerica still leaves me a little confused. Not about it's transsexual subject matter. But by the filmmaking itself. It's nothing great, it's nothing terrible.

Desperate Housewives' Felicity Huffman gives a very convincing performance as a male-to-female transsexual days away from her final operation that will complete her gender reassignment. However, she has fathered a son seventeen years ago.

I do love a road trip movie and this is one that yes does have all the elements of a transformation of its characters (no pun intended). However I don't think it's a big screen story, I see it more on a little screen. As in something that I should have rented. There are some funny one liners in the film. The audience I did see it with clapped after the movie was over, not sure if they clapped because of the movie or the subject matter.

i stand: IN THE MIDDLE