Transamerica Movie

Director:
Duncan Tucker

Writer:
Duncan Tucker (writer)

Release Date:
10 February 2006 (Denmark)

Genre:
Adventure | Comedy | Drama

Cast :
* Felicity Huffman as Stanley Schupak / Sabrina "Bree" Osbourne
* Kevin Zegers as Toby Wilkins
* Graham Greene as Calvin Many Goats
* Fionnula Flanagan as Elizabeth Schupak
* Burt Young as Murray Schupak
* Carrie Preston as Sydney Schupak
* Elizabeth Peña as Margaret

Original Sound Track :
1. Dialogue
2. Jol'Inkomo - Miriam Makeba
3. Leaving the City - David Mansfield
4. Dialogue
5. Take 'em Away - Old Crow Medicine Show
6. Lay My Burden Down - Larry Sparks
7. I Am a Pilgrim - Duncan Sheik
8. Fish Song - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
9. Dialogue
10. There's a New Moon Over My Shoulder - Larry Sparks
11. Lost in the Lonesome Pines - Jim Lauderdale/Ralph Stanley/The Clinch Mountain Boys
12. I Find Jesus - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
13. You're Gonna Love Me One Day - Heather Myles
14. We're All In This Together - Old Crow Medicine Show
15. High Plains - David Mansfield
16. Beautiful Dreamer - Graham Greene
17. Beautiful Dreamer - David Mansfield
18. Dialogue
19. Odessa Yodel - Wylie and the Wild West
20. Like a Rose - Lucinda Williams
21. Travelin' Thru - Dolly Parton

Plot / Synopsis :
One week before her sex reassignment surgery, Sabrina 'Bree' Osbourne (Felicity Huffman) receives a phone call from Toby Wilkins (Kevin Zegers), a bisexual 17-year-old jailed in New York City. He asks for Stanley Schupak (Bree's former name), claiming to be his son.

Bree was previously unaware she had a son; she now wants to break with his past and renounce him. However, Bree's therapist (Elizabeth Peña) refuses permission for her operation if she does not face up to her past.

Bree flies from Los Angeles to New York to bail Toby out of jail. Toby is a small-time drug user and male hustler. His mother committed suicide, after which he was raised by his stepfather, whom he does not want to see again.

Bree pretends to be a Christian missionary and persuades Toby to ride with her back to the West Coast, secretly planning to leave him at his stepfather's along the way. When they arrive in Kentucky it turns out that Toby's stepfather molested him as a child, and so this plan fails. Toby and Bree continue to Los Angeles together. They also stop by a house where a group of transsexuals are hosting a gender pride gathering. During the trip, Toby accidentally discovers that Bree is transsexual. He is open-minded about it, but is angry that Bree had not told him.

After their car and money are stolen by a "peyote shaman" hitchhiker, Toby makes some money by prostituting himself to a truck driver. To Bree he pretends that he got the money from selling some drugs he had taken along for his own use. They get a ride with a kindly rancher Calvin Many Goats (Graham Greene) to Bree's parents' house in Phoenix, Arizona. Here they find her conservative and self-centred mother Elizabeth (Fionnula Flanagan), her Jewish father Murray (Burt Young), and her rebellious and sarcastic sister Sydney (Carrie Preston). Elizabeth disapproves of Bree's transsexuality, but is excited about finding out she has a grandson. She is kind to Toby, and invites him to stay and live with them. Toby likes the luxury and kindness, but hesitates. Toby, realizing he has some type of feelings for Bree, proposes to have sex with her, saying that he will marry her if she wants to. Bree realizes she must tell Toby the truth, that she was his real father. She does so and Toby is angry that Bree had not disclosed this earlier. Toby leaves and travels on alone. Bree also returns to L.A., but first reconciles with her family.

Back in Los Angeles, Bree has her surgery, but breaks down into tears in the recovery room. Toby, who bleached his hair and also went to L.A., becomes an actor in gay pornography films.

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