Fresh
It's funny in spots, touching in others and uniformly life-affirming.
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Transamerica
Life is a journey. Bring an open mind.
2005 · 1h 43m · R
Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Duncan Tucker
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Transamerica
Overview
A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
77%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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, ReelViews
Rotten
Transamerica is a routine road-trip comedy-drama with a twist.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Fresh
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, Seattle Times
Fresh
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, Philadelphia Inquirer
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