Transamerica

Perhaps not immediately evident from its title, the trans in Transamerica is more to do with crossing sexual spaces than national ones, though a touching comedy road movie this certainly is. Desperate Housewives Felicity Huffman (also nominated for Best Actress Oscar 2006) plays Bree, a pre-operative male-to-female transsexual who discovers shes a father, and is obliged by her therapist to meet her 17-year-old son Toby (Kevin Zegers), an aspirant porn star. Gender realignment and pornography are subjects guaranteed to stir the moral majority, but perhaps the approval of the Academy can persuade that family values take in more than apple-pie and picket fences, and that demystifying the penis can be fun.