Alicia I love this movie so much

Diagonaldi Very well executed

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Bumpy Chip It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Kirpianuscus maybe, one of the most impressive films of the last decades. sure, for the performance of Felicity Huffman. and for her surprising art to transform Bee in a beautiful symbol of vulnerable force. for the smart story. and for Kevin Zegers who escapes, not totally but in many senses, from the mark of teenager films. a film about a trip and about delicacy of feelings. impressive scene by scene. that is all.

Syl Felicity Huffman gave an Academy Award nominated performance as Bree Osbourne, a transsexual on the process of becoming a woman. She learns that she fathered a teenage son in New York from an ex girlfriend. Bree lives by herself in California and works two jobs, one at a Mexican restaurant and as a telemarketer. Her psychiatrist encourages her to face her past before becoming a woman. The film was one of the first about the trans gender issues over ten years ago. Felicity Huffman is a woman playing a man becoming a woman. Huffman earned her accolades well from this performance. As Bree, you see her as sympathetic, alone, and strong as well unwilling to face her disapproving family and her stranger son. The story of Stanley's past comes to meet with Bree's new life. The transcontinental journey reveals her son's own problem life and the circumstances that led to his life in New York City. The film takes a gentle sympathetic approach to the trans gender issue.

statuskuo I regret that I came across this gem late. It is an fascinating road trip movie that has some of the most original characters I've seen in a long time. Felicity Huffman's portrayal of main character is amazing. Simply put...amazing. It skates the line between male/female so fine, you are absorbed by her characterization of Bree/Stanley over anything else. Whatever award that was sift by her, is well deserved.The performance all around is great. What is even more attention grabbing, is that it isn't preachy. It doesn't give you the wrong of right of whether the decision that she needs to make is political. It's not. It's a choice. And at the point you think it's about to get overly maudlin, it pulls back to comedy. A joy of a movie to watch.

yaaah_69 I usually avoid Transsexual movies as they make me uncomfortable ! That's why I avoided the movie "Transamerica" when it came out . But being a movie fan I kept reading reviews that were saying how great the movie was and how great the actors were . So I finally rented the movie in 2011 and viewed it for the first time . I had seen 'The Angry Inch' and it did nothing for me . Then I saw "A Soldiers Girl" and that movie stuck with me but it was violent . Then I viewed Transamerica and was at last entertained . Felicity Huffman , was an Oscar's performance to say the least and she did win that award . She was amazing and I do not think a male playing the role could have carried it off as well . All the actors were 100 percent human and able to reach the audience ! Kevin Segers is a bright spot in the movie as Toby , Bree's son that she did not know she had. Kevin's performance was nothing short of Oscar material , which he should have won something . There are a lot of great up and coming actors from Canada . And if it were not for the Canadians we would not have movies like this , and "The Barbarian Invasion''s . Hollywood just cannot come out of the closet long enough to make a movie in this genre , let alone in off the wall subjects. I gave this welcome flick 8 stars out of 10 . ciao yaaah69