Transamerica

This film has to be one of the more interesting road trips ever put on celluloid. I totally bought Felicity Huffman as a pre-op transgendered woman, named Bree, who suddenly finds out she has a son from a one-time hook-up with a college coed long ago, and travels to New York to bail him out of jail. In a money saving move, she buys a clunker of a station wagon in NY, and drives Toby, her son, back homewards to Los Angeles because he wants to break into show business.

Their journey across America is one of discovery, and imports more significance to the actual journey and not the final destination as a life metaphor. Bree has this quiet wit about her that make her interesting to watch, and how she responds to her son and others on their journey made for some humorous sidebars, but all the while the humanity of her situation is never undermined throughout her journey.

I found it to be a worthwhile filmgoing experience. Being open to change isn't a bad thing.

I give it 3 stars, or a grade of B.