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www.reel.com - : On TV, Felicity Huffman is one of the Desperate Housewives, but while her homemaker-turned-advertising-executive Lynette Scavo may be a harried mother of four, she really knows nothing about being desperate. No, that is an adjective that better fits another of Huffman's characters: Bree, the transsexual whose life is thrown into total disarray only days before she is scheduled for her final sexual reassignment surgery in Duncan Tucker's debut feature Transamerica. The actress has already received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her poignant performance and an Academy Award nod does not seem out of the realm of possibility. more...
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www.rollingstone.com - : Would you believe desperate housewife Felicity Huffman as a man? After seeing this wow of an actress play Stanley Osborne, just a few weeks away from the operation that will turn him into a her, you'll believe Huffman in anything. Writer-director Duncan Tucker lays many a plot contrivance in Huffman's path, but her Oscar-bait performance handles every curve he throws. That includes a road trip from New York to Los Angeles with Stanley -- now Bree -- pretending to be a Christian missionary so Toby (Kevin Zegers), the teen son he sired from a brief encounter, won't... more...
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www.boxoffice.com - : Emmy-winning Felicity Huffman leaves the desperate housewives behind to create a memorable bigscreen presence in Duncan Tucker's ''Transamerica.'' As Bree, a California man awkwardly trying to master womanly qualities while awaiting sexual-reassignment surgery, the actress displays a heartrending yet humorous tangle of body language. The prissy character's lonely struggle is further complicated by the discovery that her previous self, Stanley, once unwittingly fathered a child. Her therapist (Elizabeth Pena) insists that she come to terms with the past by meeting this boy, now an embittered teenage male hustler in New York... more...
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