Transamerica

[MacGuffin]

Trailer here.

Release Date: December 2nd, 2005 (limited)

Cast: Felicity Huffman (Bree), Kevin Zegers (Toby), Fionnula Flanagan (Elizabeth), Graham Greene (Calvin), Elizabeth Peña (Margaret), Barbara Barron (Ms. Swallow), Paul Borghese (Precinct Officer), Jon Budinoff (Alex), Danny Burstein (Dr. Spikowsky), Bianca Leigh (Mary Ellen), Richard Poe (John), Calpernia Addams (Texas Fiddle Player)

Director: Duncan Tucker (Boys Life)

Screenwriter: Duncan Tucker

Premise: A pre-operative transsexual woman and an adolescent male hustler take a road trip from New York City to Los Angeles after the woman bails him out of jail. The two embark on an unexpected journey, but she fails to divulge her secret...that she is his biological father.

[Ghostboy]

I saw this at its first screening way back in February, so it might have changed somewhat since then - but the film I saw was a disappointigly sitcomish road trip dramedy with a performance from Felicity Huffman that might deserve the term legendary. She makes all the cliches worthwhile.

[Just Withnail]

I have, but wasn't really enthustiastic enough about it, positive nor negative, to bother. Pretty much very indifferent.

[The Red Vine]

well this cover is a total lie



DVD Release Date - May 9th

[modage]

wow, thats amazingly misleading!  even moreso than halle berry on the Monsters Ball cover. 

[MacGuffin]

From thedigitalibits:

By the way, that cover artwork for Genius Product's TransAmerica (due 5/23)? As we've mentioned before, there's actually a lenticular hologram on the front, which "transforms" actress Felicity Huffman into the character she plays in the film. We've had a few people in the last day e-mail us going, "What the hell is Felicity doing on the cover as herself?!" Yeah, we think it's strange too, but there you go. Chalk it up as one of those ideas that probably looked a lot better in the marketing plan...