Sunday, July 27, 2008

Movies: Fifteen Minutes and Transamerica

Fifteen Minutes
Robert De Niro is slumming it in this OK actioner from 2001. It kept my attention, but that's about it. On the 5 fish anchovy rating scale, the best I can give this one is a couple soggy ones from the bottom of the can.

Transamerica
Tuffy and I both enjoyed this charming 2005 film, starring Felicity Huffman as a pre-op (male to female) transsexual who discovers she has a son and takes him on a road-trip west. He doesn't know she is his father, but instead thinks she is a Christian missionary. This turns out to be a dysfunctional family film, more so than a movie about gender...and it's very well done. On the anchovy scale, I give it a case of premium anchovys. Highly recommended.

5 comments:

Wandering Coyote said...

I've wanted to see Transamerica for a while, and I really like Felicity Huffman (though not enough to watch that dreadful housewife show). I'll have to add this to my list...Actually, I need to write a list...

Anonymous said...

as far as Tranamerica goes I take your premium anchovy and raise it by one squid.

Barbara Bruederlin said...

I've been wanting to see Transamerica, but had forgotten about it. Thanks for the reminder.

Gardenia said...

I would love to see this movie - LOL, it does sound pretty dysfunctional - LOL! A transgender Christian missionary...an anomoly for sure.

Anonymous said...

we have a transgender christian ex-missonary at the gimcrack