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starring: Richard Bull, Mary Seibel, Danny Goldring, Jessica Lange, Tom Wilkinson
directed by: Jane Anderson (II)

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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780783123660
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783123663
Label: HBO Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: HBO Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: HBO Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 07, 2003
Running Time: 108 minutes
Sales Rank: 28323
Studio: HBO Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2003



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Description:
Ray and Irma are a devoted couple living a normal life in rural Illinois, until Roy decides that his life must change and confesses to Irma that he's a woman trapped in a man's body. Now Roy must face their friends, his coworkers and his own children with the whole new way of life he has planned - and they must face him. What happens to a town, a factory and a loving marriage when confronted with such a transformation is all about being who you are, being in love, and simply being normal.

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As Roy (Tom Wilkinson, In the Bedroom) and Irma (Jessica Lange, Cape Fear, Tootsie) celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary, Roy passes out. While meeting with their pastor, Roy reveals that he's a woman trapped in a man's body, and he wants to get a sex change--setting in motion a complex and emotionally fraught conflict between husband and wife, individual and community, and parent and child. Normal explores Roy's gender dysphoria with empathy, but also has an eye for the social and familial absurdities that come up. The humor, far from trivializing the issue, steers it away from cloying sentiment or politically correct sanctimony. The movie captures the confusion of Roy's friends and coworkers with realism and without judgment, and the stressful changes of Roy and Irma's relationship aren't sugarcoated or made into a moral lesson. Both Lange and Wilkinson are superb, as are the skillful script and direction. --Bret Fetzer



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - So your mate wants a sex change,Huh?
Thank you HBO and Jane Anderson for an emotional roller coaster of a film that examines one not-so ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A rare and sensible human drama
A best drama from HBO production, sensible and human. Jessica Lange is great and Tom is better than ... Read More


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Cliché
As expected from an HBO production, this TS coming out tale is loud and crude.

Essentially, ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Worth watching
A very well written movie, I deffinatly like the small town setting which can hit close to home and bring ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Outstanding Sleeper Movie
This movie is emotionally punched. It moves with a steady pace though. It's based on a play about a man ... Read More

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