I hope that this is OK to reply to such an old topic, but I think a lot of the comments addressed here are good, so it's kind of like a free "bump" up. Okay . . .
So, I saw this on DVD Sunday, and, honestly, I really liked it. I'm pretty sure I'm not TS (see my introduction if you want that spiel), but I thought it was really well done. Huffman did a great job, I think, and should have won some award for her efforts. Though the nuts and bolts of the process weren't 100 accurate (the letter, the psychiatrist, L.A., etc.), I was willing to let those slide because they served to move the story along.
And I usually am pretty picky about my movies and their realism, but any expert in a given field will find holes. A knife and gun enthusiast friend of mine is horrible to see action movies with, and I'm kind of bad about when characters discuss literature. We must divorce ourselves and our own pickiness from the truly bad and egregious errors and performances.
There was a line that went something along the lines of "I am a transsexual, not a ->-bleeped-<-." I took that as part of the conservative-ness of Brie's character, not the movie's statement.
On that note, the party was a bad scene. I would have liked it all toned down a bit, giving a bit in to the social-ness that we're expressing here, but more subtle. That was one of the few campy moments, and I don't really care for camp.
The nightgown scene. I tied that together with the boy's continued experimentation with, you know, everything sexual. The boys, the girls, the prostitution, the search for identity that teenagers (and some adults) are going through. I guess I really identified with the boy, and that helped.
That's all for now. It's time for beauty sleep for me.
