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A terrific performance by Felicity Huffman carries this unconventional but touching transgender road movie.
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It's funny in spots, touching in others and uniformly life-affirming. Feb 2, 2006 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
It's funny in spots, touching in others and uniformly life-affirming.
Jeff Strickler
Huffman's performance redeems parts of the movie but, until the final 30 minutes, Transamerica too often feels like a journey to nowhere. Feb 2, 2006 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Huffman's performance redeems parts of the movie but, until the final 30 minutes, Transamerica too often feels like a journey to nowhere.
James Berardinelli
Transamerica is a routine road-trip comedy-drama with a twist. Jan 27, 2006 | Rating: 3/5
Transamerica is a routine road-trip comedy-drama with a twist.
Roger Moore
Huffman's performance in Transamerica, as a pre-op male-to-female transsexual coping with the sudden emergence of a long-lost son, is much better than the movie it's in; indeed, she singlehandedly takes Transamerica to a higher plane. Jan 20, 2006 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Huffman's performance in Transamerica, as a pre-op male-to-female transsexual coping with the sudden emergence of a long-lost son, is much better than the movie it's in; indeed, she singlehandedly takes Transamerica to a higher plane.
Moira MacDonald
It's a farce with heart, a meditation on identity, family and gender politics that has real faith in its characters -- even when the characters themselves lack it. Jan 20, 2006 | Rating: 3/4
It's a farce with heart, a meditation on identity, family and gender politics that has real faith in its characters -- even when the characters themselves lack it.
Steven Rea
As Bree, who started her unhappy life as Stanley, the angular Huffman, a fine comedic actress who carried home an Emmy this fall, is a compelling portrait of wounded dignity. She is wholly fascinating and heartbreaking. Jan 20, 2006 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
As Bree, who started her unhappy life as Stanley, the angular Huffman, a fine comedic actress who carried home an Emmy this fall, is a compelling portrait of wounded dignity. She is wholly fascinating and heartbreaking.
Connie Ogle
Bree was, and still is, an identifiable character in a movie that has aged well; credit for this lands solely in the lap of Felicity Huffman for her ability to turn a potentially clown-like depiction of a Trans woman into a loving mother. Sep 15, 2019 | Full Review…
Bree was, and still is, an identifiable character in a movie that has aged well; credit for this lands solely in the lap of Felicity Huffman for her ability to turn a potentially clown-like depiction of a Trans woman into a loving mother.
Alexander Ryll
... ultimately, it is about the primacy of family and friends, and how decency begets decency. Sep 26, 2017 | Full Review…
... ultimately, it is about the primacy of family and friends, and how decency begets decency.
Victoria Segal
Huffman's performance is the reason to see this sensitive, and sometimes touching drama. Paul Chambers, CNN. Mar 6, 2010 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
Huffman's performance is the reason to see this sensitive, and sometimes touching drama. Paul Chambers, CNN.
Paul Chambers
Lifetime through Sundance Aug 30, 2009 | Full Review…
Lifetime through Sundance
Fernando F. Croce
Tucker's screenplay is sharp but also sensitive, so the ample good humour never drifts into high camp (apart from the scenes with Bree's mother - and SHE is straight). Aug 10, 2007 | Full Review…
Tucker's screenplay is sharp but also sensitive, so the ample good humour never drifts into high camp (apart from the scenes with Bree's mother - and SHE is straight).
Anton Bitel
Comfort food for a comfortable audience, with the TV-familiar Huffman reassuring viewers that she's really a real woman underneath that unflattering make-up. Aug 5, 2007 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Comfort food for a comfortable audience, with the TV-familiar Huffman reassuring viewers that she's really a real woman underneath that unflattering make-up.
Rob Gonsalves
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