“Transamerica,” July 17, 2006 (2005), DVD. We enjoyed this very American film about a m2f pre-op transsexual, Brie (Felicity Huffman), who learns she has a son one week before she’s to have her gender reassignment surgery. She has to fly to NYC and bail him out of jail. He’s an adolescent male hustler who aspires to work in the porno business. Their road trip back to CA is, of course, a story of self-discovery. It’s not one big happy ending, but it is a good tale with uniquely American resolution to things. None of that French ambiguity here. Still, it’s well done, Huffman is great, and many of the supporting cast (Fionnula Flannagan as Brie’s harridan mom, Burt Young as her Jewish father, and Graham Greene as an Indian rancher they meet on the way) are really a pleasure to watch work. A fun, interesting, and rather heartwarming if not necessarily a challenging film. Compare the interviews with the director with that in “Cache”. These are all “aren’t they wonderful” while that is analytical and intense.