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Synopsis: Southern Californian Bree Osbourne, formerly Stanley Chupak, has finally received the news for which she has been waiting: she has been approved for male-to-female sexual reassignment surgery. But before Margaret, her therapist, will allow her to go through with the surgery scheduled in a week's time, Bree has to deal with an unresolved problem from her past. Bree gets a telephone call from a seventeen year old man named Toby Wilkins, who is looking for Stanley, his biological father. Toby is in a New York jail, having been supporting himself by petty crime and hustling. Stanley/Bree knew nothing about Toby before the telephone call. Toby apparently is all alone in the world, with his mother having committed suicide and being estranged from his stepfather in Tennessee. Masquerading as a Christian social worker, Bree, not telling him either of her true identity or her transgender status, bails Toby out of jail and tells him she will take him to Los Angeles, where Toby has aspirations of
Director(s): Duncan Tucker
Production: Weinstein Company
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 32 wins & 23 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
66
Rotten Tomatoes:
77%
R
Year:
2005
103 min
$8,713,873
Website
1,235 Views


and all the people in it.

And everyone else...everywhere.

Sic transit gloria mundi.

in excelsis Deo.

Amen.

Do you have any percs?

Vicodin?

Anything with codeine?

Sorry. l'm all out.

So why don't you tell me

something about yourself.

l'm not naming any names.

l said about yourself.

ls Toby short for something?

A diminutive?

No, it's American.

Where do you come from?

Callicoon.

Where's Callicoon?

ln Kentucky. Duh.

ls that where your family is?

My mother's dead.

She had a stroke.

- ls there anyone else?

- l had a step-father.

- That's wonderful.

- Me and him don't get along.

Why not?

T.M.l.

Too much information.

What about grandparents?

Aunts, uncles?

l don't need any family.

l can take care of myself.

l'm a loner.

That's wonderful.

That's the spirit.

l've been meanin'

to thank you for bailin' me out.

You're welcome.

l decided in jail

l'm gonna give up hustling.

lt's degradable.

Degrading.

How many people

inhabit this place?

Three.

Dude, by the way,

l was just holding those drugs

for a friend.

l'm not stupid.

Junkies just live for the day.

No ambition or anything.

- You have ambition?

- Yeah.

l'm gonna get a career in the movies.

Ten, twenty, forty.

Sixty, eighty.

One hundred.

Here.

Will that hold you for a while?

Yeah.

Dude, this is great.

l wish you would

stop calling me dude.

Well, l best be on my way.

Got a flight to Los Angeles

first thing in the morning.

Maybe l'll see ya out there.

That's where they make

the movies, right?

l was gonna hitchhike out there

like, maybe, tomorrow.

You can't.

You don't wanna add

jumping bail to your permanent record.

l'll change my street name.

Something like Stanley.

Stan.

Stan the man.

That's my dad's name.

There's his picture.

He's with my mom.

Mmm.

You okay?

l'm a little dizzy.

Beverly Hills

is close to the ocean, right?

Maybe l'll learn how to surf.

Dye my hair blonde

for the movies.

They love blondes there.

l mean, blonde and blondes.

Stocks and blondes.

Bodacious blonde bottoms.

Not that l'm a bottom or anything.

Are you talking about

pornographic films?

Duh.

ls there a...

ladies room

in this establishment?

Oh!

- Hello.

- Margaret.

lt's Bree.

l'm in New York.

lt turns out this whole jail episode

was just a big mistake.

Talk to me.

He's a thoroughly independent

young man.

We're getting along famously.

He's going to come visit me

after my surgery,

and l promised to take him

to Disneyland.

l see.

So I tIhougIht I'd take

an early fligIht back tomorrow.

get back to work.

recoup some of tIhe money

I spent on tIhis trip

before my surgery next week.

- How are you?

- Right now,

l'm a little disappointed

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Duncan Tucker

Duncan Tucker is an American film director and screenwriter.Tucker was born in Arizona and graduated from New York University. After the short subject film The Mountain King, which was screened at over 31 international festivals, he wrote and directed his first feature film, Transamerica. His book Many Fish is published by Ascent, and his photos and pictures are exhibited at many New York art galleries. more…

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