Normal (2003)

Directed by

Jane Anderson

Genre

drama film, comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

12

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 40 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Midwestern factory worker named Roy Applewood tells his wife of 25 years that she wants to undergo sex reassignment surgery and transition to a woman. The film focuses on the couple as they grapple with the fallout from this revelation.

intimateemotionalslow-pacedthoughtfulquietheartfeltgroundedserious

What happens

Normal is a 2003 American made-for-television drama film produced by HBO Films, which became an official selection at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. Jane Anderson, the film's writer and director, adapted her own play, Looking for Normal. The film is about a fictional Midwestern factory worker named Roy Applewood, who stuns her wife of 25 years by saying she wishes to undergo sex reassignment surgery and transition to a woman. In an HBO interview, Anderson was asked "Were you drawing on any sources when you were researching this? Or was it purely out of your imagination?", to which she replied "Oh, it's my imagination, it's all fiction." She also said that she wanted to use the play "as a metaphor for a study of marriage", calling transition the "ultimate betrayal". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

More like this

• An Unexpected Love (2003)
• Murad (2003)
• Soldier's Girl (2003)
• Prayers for Bobby (2009)
• Latter Days (2003)
• Die, Mommie, Die! (2003)
• The Trip (2002)
• Lianna (1983)