Tangerine is a gonzo screwball comedy about transgender sex workers

[stephaniec]

Tangerine is a gonzo screwball comedy about transgender sex workers

http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/tangerine-is-a-gonzo-screwball-comedy-about-transgender-sex-workers/Content?oid=4663257

Indy Week/by Craig D. Lindsey   August 19, 2015

"Imagine if Crank writer/directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor directed a really long Key & Peele skit and you basically have Tangerine. Yes, I mean that as a compliment.

The movie centers on two friends, transgender sex workers Sin-Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) and Alexandra (Mya Taylor), as they tear through the streets of LA on Christmas Eve. Alexandra accidentally lets it slip to Sin-Dee, who just did a monthlong jail stint, that her pimp and drug-dealer boyfriend (James Ransone) has been cheating on her with a woman. That's all Sin-Dee needs to hear to go on the warpath, harassing people and kicking in doors as she tracks down the "fish" who's been creeping with her man."

[stephaniec]

"Tangerine": A New Kind of Trans Movie

http://www.pqmonthly.com/tangerine-a-new-kind-of-trans-movie/23360

PQ Monthly/By Leela Ginelle   08/19/2015

"I was in college when I first saw, and was stunned by, My Own Private Idaho. For days I tried to understand what was so different about it. It wasn't simply the visuals, which were stunning, or River Phoenix's heartbreakingly vulnerable performance, I thought. But what was it?"