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The off-beat love story between Paul and Kim provides the framework of this quirky British melodrama. The two meet after the taxi in which the attractive Kim rides collides with manly courier Paul and his motorcycle. Paul is utterly fascinated with Kim and swears that he has seen her before. He has. In fact the two were childhood friends in Catholic boys school, but back then, before the operation, Kim was named Karl. Now as a woman, Kim works as a successful writer for a greeting-card company
Sep 12, 1997 Wide
Feb 13, 2001
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Toplined by handsome Brit thesp Rupert Graves, offbeat serio comedy concerns the evolving friendhsip and eventual love between a rambunctious macho and a quiet insecure transsexual.
The story has a TV movie shorthand calculation and slightness.
One of the reasons why Different for Girls works is because of the caliber of acting.
The subtlety with which Mackintosh conveys her complicated mixture of vulnerability, defensiveness and pride makes [Kim] one of the most fully realized characters to be portrayed on the screen in a long time.
It's rather ordinary stuff.
This irrepressible and sensitive romance brings new flavor to the term odd couple.
Charming, offbeat serio comedy about the relationship between a macho and a transsexual
Different for Girls staggers around, keeping its lovers apart as in any conventional romantic comedy.
What makes this wonderfully deranged film fly is Rupert ("Maurice"; "Where Angels Fear to Tread") Graves.
Bland and conventional, despite the sex-change angle, Different for Girls is ultimately not different enough.
The film engages the audience on a gut level so that we care about Kim and Prentice.
Richard Spence's film doesn't have the courage to examine forcefully the issues at its center.
Well-acted but essentially go-nowhere little movie.
[Graves and Mackintosh] put in gobsmackingly good performances.
This would be infinitely more likeable if it wasn't for some irritatingly unreal plot development.
Overall, this movie was ok. I never entirely bought Kim as a woman however. It just seemed like two dudes in a gay relationship, which was fine. My biggest problem with the film is one of expectation, I think. I expected better. While this movie didn't put me to sleep, the plodding story ultimately leaves you feeling
April 12, 2011Super Reviewer
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