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Title: Review: A transgender homecoming -- and so much more -- in 'Prodigal Sons'
Post by: Shana A on April 23, 2010, 08:09:14 AM
Post by: Shana A on April 23, 2010, 08:09:14 AM
Review: A transgender homecoming -- and so much more -- in 'Prodigal Sons'
By Stan Hall, Special to The Oregonian
April 22, 2010, 3:42PM
http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/index.ssf/2010/04/review_a_transgender_homecomin.html (http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/index.ssf/2010/04/review_a_transgender_homecomin.html)
From the can't-make-this-stuff-up department comes Kimberly Reed's unique documentary "Prodigal Sons," about a transgender woman (Reed herself) returning to her hometown of Helena, Mont., for her first post-op visit. Not that unusual until it's revealed that she's attending her high school class reunion -- the school where Kim, back then a strapping lad named Paul McKerrow, embodied an ideal of American manliness as the star quarterback.
Complicating matters is Kim's estranged relationship with her adopted brother, Marc, a talented but tortured man who was in the same graduating class as his sibling and has felt overshadowed ever since. It doesn't help that a terrible accident in Marc's 20s resulted in his having had a chunk of his brain removed, causing split-personality behaviors and wild, sometimes violent mood swings. There are times when it is hard to understand why Kim is willing to deal with her brother.
By Stan Hall, Special to The Oregonian
April 22, 2010, 3:42PM
http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/index.ssf/2010/04/review_a_transgender_homecomin.html (http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/index.ssf/2010/04/review_a_transgender_homecomin.html)
From the can't-make-this-stuff-up department comes Kimberly Reed's unique documentary "Prodigal Sons," about a transgender woman (Reed herself) returning to her hometown of Helena, Mont., for her first post-op visit. Not that unusual until it's revealed that she's attending her high school class reunion -- the school where Kim, back then a strapping lad named Paul McKerrow, embodied an ideal of American manliness as the star quarterback.
Complicating matters is Kim's estranged relationship with her adopted brother, Marc, a talented but tortured man who was in the same graduating class as his sibling and has felt overshadowed ever since. It doesn't help that a terrible accident in Marc's 20s resulted in his having had a chunk of his brain removed, causing split-personality behaviors and wild, sometimes violent mood swings. There are times when it is hard to understand why Kim is willing to deal with her brother.