Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, January 20, 2006 Page: 36 of 68
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NEXT STOP, DALLAS: During their road trip, Toby (Zegers) and Bree (Huffman) stop at a friend's home in Big D.
By Steve Warren Contributing Film Critic
Sometimes it's hard to be a woman — espe-
cially when you were born with a penis.
"Transamerica" is the best semi-mainstream
film about a transsexual since "The Adventures
of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.''
Felicity Huffman bids for an Oscar to match
her Emmy (for "Desperate Housewives") as
Bree Osborn, born Stanley Shupak, who is near-
ing the date for her gender
reassignment surgery.
Just as her therapist
(Elizabeth Pena) is giving
final authorization, a compli-
cation arises. It isn't physical,
physiological or psychologi-
cal. Bree learns that, as
Stanley, she fathered a child 17 years ago in a
drunken college fling: "The whole thing was so
... lesbian, it didn't count," she says.
Having tracked down his biological father
with plans of visiting him when he gets to Los
Angeles, Toby Wilkins (Kevin Zegers, the kid
from "Air Bud") makes the call earlier than
planned when he finds himself in juvie for
shoplifting. It strains credibility, but this con-
trivance does the job of getting the two together
for the road trip "Transamerica" is about.
The therapist insists Bree come to terms with
her past before moving on to her future, so Bree
flies to New York to bail Toby out. He's a run-
away and a hustler who doesn't want Bree's help:
"I don't need any family. I can take care of
myself. I'm a loner."
TRANSAMERICA
B Director: Duncan Tucker
Cast: Felicity Huffman, Keith, Zegers
Fionnula Flanagan, Graham Greene
Opens today exclusively at the at Landmark's Magnolia
1 hr. 43 Bin, R
She's not about to go through a "Luke, I am
your father" scene at their first meeting, so she
encourages his misconception that she's a mis-
sionary trying to convert him.
Toby says he's determined to go to Los
Angeles to find his real father. He fantasizes is
part Indian and lives in a Beverly Hills mansion
with a pool. Toby also dreams of working in
films "like 'Bodacious Blond
Bottoms' — not that I'm a
bottom or anything."
Bree offers to drive him,
with the intent of dropping
him off at his stepfather's in
Kentucky on the way. When
that proves a less-than-viable
option, they're together for the long haul.
There are four main events after Kentucky. A
visit to a transgender support group in Dallas is
educational for Bree and Toby in different ways.
They pick up a hot young hitchhiker (Grant
Monohon), who goes skinny-dipping with Toby.
Bree meets Calvin (Graham Greene), a Native
American gentleman who gives them shelter for
the night. And in Phoenix, they visit Bree's fam-
ily: emotional mother (Fionnula Flanagan), mel-
low Jewish father (Burt Young) and screw-up sis-
ter (Carrie Preston), who takes all the heat during
Bree's long periods of estrangement.
Duncan Tucker, directing his first feature, has
given himself an excellent, character-driven
script to work from. The events that set it in
motion don't bear close analysis, but once it gets
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Vercher, Dennis. Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, January 20, 2006, newspaper, January 20, 2006; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth238892/m1/36/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.