Sebastian Cole is a teenager who is from a broken home. His dad is an architect and has little to do with him and his mom is a free spirit who he lives with but has more time devoted to her new husband. Sebastian is a very smart kid with a bright future but his whole world suddenly comes crashing down after his step dad announces he is becoming a woman, sex change and all. His sister runs off with her loser boyfriend and he and his mom head to her homeland of England. After being there a very short time he comes back to the states to live with his step-dad/mom Hank/Henrieta. He soon begins to realize that life is not really that great, we all work and for what, just so we can be like everyone else. His grades slump and he barely makes it out of high-school. His dad and his dads parents all look down on him for being different, his mother finds a new love and he and Henrieta even have many arguments and he finds himself independent. When troubles role in though its always Henrieta who is there for him and also he meets a girl and although he gives her a hard time she sees the passion inside of him too. - There are many deep meanings in this story and its a real story about real love, real family and real life.
I enjoyed this film a lot. I walked away with this beautiful message and that message was that he has a "normall" dad who has no time for him, a "normal" mom who has more important things on her mind and "normal" grandparents who look down on him, but the "freak" the "weirdo" Henrieta is truly the one who loves him and is always the one family member who is there for him, even though he has no legal reason to be.
I liked how Sebastian saw the world and wanted to live life good or bad and not let material things hold him down and not let school tell him who he was. Life is rarely lived by anyone, no matter what we do we are gonna die, no matter what we own we leave with nothing and life is out there and most of us restrict ourselves to the "norm" and waste our life looking for something that is not even there.
I thought Tod did a great job directing this and the actors did great. Adrien Grennier as Sebastian and Clark Gregg as Henrieta especially. I also liked Gabriel Macht as Troy.
There is a scene in here when Sebastian has to pretend to know karate to impress the school board and the scene is very funny, it was a highlight of my movie watching experiences.
Good movie, a lot of people label this movie as a gay movie and it is very far from anything like that. There is a man who becomes a woman and it is not anything bad at all, the closest he gets to having a gay moment is having Levon Helms character flirt with him. 4/10 stars - good film
I enjoyed this film a lot. I walked away with this beautiful message and that message was that he has a "normall" dad who has no time for him, a "normal" mom who has more important things on her mind and "normal" grandparents who look down on him, but the "freak" the "weirdo" Henrieta is truly the one who loves him and is always the one family member who is there for him, even though he has no legal reason to be.
I liked how Sebastian saw the world and wanted to live life good or bad and not let material things hold him down and not let school tell him who he was. Life is rarely lived by anyone, no matter what we do we are gonna die, no matter what we own we leave with nothing and life is out there and most of us restrict ourselves to the "norm" and waste our life looking for something that is not even there.
I thought Tod did a great job directing this and the actors did great. Adrien Grennier as Sebastian and Clark Gregg as Henrieta especially. I also liked Gabriel Macht as Troy.
There is a scene in here when Sebastian has to pretend to know karate to impress the school board and the scene is very funny, it was a highlight of my movie watching experiences.
Good movie, a lot of people label this movie as a gay movie and it is very far from anything like that. There is a man who becomes a woman and it is not anything bad at all, the closest he gets to having a gay moment is having Levon Helms character flirt with him. 4/10 stars - good film