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DVD Cover Information Actor: Clancy Brown, Hayden Panettiere, Jessica Lange, Tom Wilkinson Director: Jane Anderson Brand: Warner Brothers Writer: Jane Anderson DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: Unknown Running Time: 108 minutes DVD Release Date: 2003-10-07 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: HBO Home Entertainment |
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Movie Review: Drama or farce?
Summary: 3 Stars
The acting of Tom Wilkinson as the transgender MTF was quite good, and the acting of Jessica Lange was superb. I wanted to like this movie a lot, but.... it just doesn't cut it (please excuse this poor attempt at humor). I have to disagree with the Amazon.com reviewer's opinion that the humor and the drama don't get into each other's way in this film. The makers of the film can't decide what the focus of the film is about, whether to play it for laughs or for pathos. Of course, in some fine dramas the humor and the pathos can both reinforce each other. But that doesn't happen here. And aside from Lange and Wilkinson (and their daughter), the acting is very wooden, so much so that the movie is occasionally unintentionally funny. Once I decided to watch the remainder of the movie as a farce, I laughed a bunch at the high point of the movie: where the daughter gives a speech in front of her class at school on what happens in a gender-reassigment-surgery. Her demonstration broke me up.
I think it will be quite a while before Hollywood makes a good movie on this subjuect. In the meantime, there are some very educational books on the subject of transsexualism, some of which have both pathos and humor. My favorite is "The Woman I Was Not Born to Be, A Transsexual Journey" by Aleshia Brevard.