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Transamerica is a Golden Globe-winning and Academy Award-nominated 2005 comedy-drama produced by IFC Films and The Weinstein Company. The film tells the story of Bree, a transsexual woman (Felicity Huffman), who goes on an unintended road trip with her long-lost son Toby (Kevin Zegers).

Tagline: Life is more than the sum of its parts

The movie is marked by an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning performance by Felicity Huffman, who is also known for her Emmy-award winning performance in Desperate Housewives.
Plot
One week before her vaginoplasty, Sabrina 'Bree' Osbourne (Felicity Huffman
) receives a phone call from Toby Wilkins (Kevin Zegers
), a young adult who is jailed in New York City. He asks for Stanley Schupak (Bree's former name), claiming to be his son.

Although Bree was previously unaware she had a son, Bree flies from Los Angeles to New York to bail Toby, a small-time drug user and hustler, out of jail, at the insistence of her therapist (Elizabeth Peña
). She pretends to be a Christian missionary, and persuades Toby to ride with her back to the West Coast, secretly planning to leave him at his stepfather's along the way. It turns out that Toby's stepfather is a sexual abuser, and so this plan fails. Toby and Bree continue to Los Angeles together. During the trip, Toby accidentally discovers that Bree is transsexual.

When their car is stolen by a hitchhiker, they get a ride with a rancher to Bree's parents' - Fionnula Flanagan
and Burt Young
- house in Phoenix, Arizona. While there, Toby learns that Bree is his father and disappears in anger. After Bree has her surgery, the two reunite in Los Angeles and reconcile.
Trivia

The initial idea for the screenplay occurred in a conversation between screenwriter/director Duncan Tucker
and intersex actress Katherine Connella. While discussing male/female perceptions, Connella shocked Tucker (they had been sharing a house for about four months at the time) with the revelation that she had been raised as a male.

This is the first non-Miramax film to be acquired by Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein.

Dolly Parton
wrote and performed the song played over the closing credits, Travelin' Thru ; the song was nominated for an Academy Award. It was her second nomination, her first being "9 to 5", twenty-five years earlier.

Awards (9) & Nominations (8)

Independent Spirit Awards

*Won - Best Female Lead (Felicity Huffman
)

*Won - Best First Screenplay (Duncan Tucker
)

*Nominated - Best First Feature - (Duncan Tucker, Sebastian Dungan, Linda Moran, Rene Bastian)

Academy Awards

*Nominated - Best Actress (Felicity Huffman
)

*Nominated - Best Song (Dolly Parton
, for the song "Travelin' Thru")

Berlin International Film Festival

*Won - Reader Jury of the "Siegessäule"

Broadcast Film Critics Association

*Nominated - Best Actress (Felicity Huffman
)

*Nominated - Best Song (Dolly Parton
, for the song "Travelin' Thru")

Deauville Film Festival

*Won - Best Screenplay (Duncan Tucker)

*Nominated - Grand Special Prize

Golden Globes

*Won - Best Actress in a Drama (Felicity Huffman
)

*Nominated - Best Original Song (Dolly Parton
, for the song "Travelin' Thru")

National Board of Review

*Won - Best Actress (Felicity Huffman
)

Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards 2005

*Won - Best Original Song (Dolly Parton
, for the song "Travelin' Thru")

Satellite Awards

*Won - Best Actress (Felicity Huffman
)

Screen Actors Guild Award

*Nominated - Best Actress in a Lead Role (Felicity Huffman
)

Tribeca Film Festival

*Won''' - Best Actress (Felicity Huffman
)

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Movies - Transamerica

Plot

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Awards (9) & Nominations (8)

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