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Sunday, June 26
Closing Night Film
TRANAMERICA
7:30 pm, Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street (near Market)

Join Frameline's closing night celebration with director Duncan Tucker's laugh-out-loud funny, tartly off-color, and extraordinarily touching feature debut, TRANAMERICA.
Bree (Felicity Huffman, in a far cry from her role on "Desperate Housewives") is days away from what she's been dreaming about her whole life - the completion of her gender reassignment surgery. But her plans come to an abrupt halt when her therapist, Margaret (Elizabeth Peña), gives her one last hurdle: Bree must spring Toby (Kevin Zegers), her previously unknown son from a long-ago hetero encounter, from detention in New York City, where he's looking for his biological father.
Reluctantly, Bree travels to New York and bails out Toby under the pretense that she's a missionary worker. Toby has no clue that Bree was a he, or that he's her son. Bree learns that Toby's mother is dead and that he now works as a hustler, does drugs, and lives as a squatter. Toby begs Bree to take him with her to L.A., and the two embark on a road trip that leads to a touching rediscovery of familial bonds.
Laced with humor and poignant moments, TRANAMERICA transcends the genres it incorporates, as two people in transition, used to self-reliance, realize that it sometimes takes the help of a stranger to move you on to the next place. Huffman is spectacular as the complex Bree, at once proud and terrified of who she is, who she wants to be, and what she must endure to get there.
Closing Night Party
Following the premiere of TRANAMERICA, help us bring Frameline29 to a festive close at the elegant ballroom of the Old Federal Reserve Bank Building. Join us as we announce this year's award-winning films and wrap up LGBT Pride Day.
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