Transamerica (15)

Jul 22 2006 By Graham Young, Birmingham Mail

FOR an admirably sympathetic and often very funny road movie about a man wanting a sex-change operation, don't miss Transamerica.

Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman earned a deserved best actress Oscar nomination as Bree, a pre-operative man who wants to be turned into a woman.

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