Transamerica

Finally coming to NZ, an entire year after its US release!, is the gleefully received Transamerica. Often compared to Sideways for its deadpan humour, it follows Bree (Desperate Housewife’s Huffman) - a perfectly well-adjusted pre-op, man to woman transsexual, who is eagerly awaiting the surgery to put a cherry on top of his/her transformation.

One day she gets a phone call from Manhattan police. In their cells is her previously unknown son (from a long ago heterosexual relationship). Bree’s therapist withholds legal permission for surgery until she meets this 20 year old delinquent – Toby (Zegers). So she picks him up in NY and they road trip back to LA – with Toby unaware that Bree is his father.