Transamerica

2006 • 103 minutes

About this movie

Bree (Felicity Huffman), is a pre-operative, male to female transsexual who discovers she has a son, Toby (Kevin Zegers), the product of a somewhat clumsy sexual encounter years ago when she was a man. Bree flies from Los Angeles to New York in order to bail Toby out of jail. Greeting Toby in the guise of a Christian missionary, Bree persuades him to accompany her back to the west coast- secretly planning to return him to his stepfather along the way. As each lies to and manipulates the other. Bree and Toby find themselves travelling across the heartland of a continent on an unexpected journey- TRANSAMERICA. 2005 TRANSPARENTFILMS LLC. All Rights Reserved.