Winner, Best First Screenplay — Independent Spirit Award

Transamerica is a screenplay by Duncan Tucker who wanted to make a film about an epic trip while exploring issues that effect all of us. In this illuminating script book to the award-winning movie, with a tour-de-force performance by Golden Globe Winner Felicity Huffman as Bree (short for Sabrina), a pre-operative transsexual woman. Bree, formerly and reluctantly known as Stanley, is just days away from her final surgery to complete her transformation from a man to a woman when she discovers she has a teenage son from a long forgotten one night stand. It sets Bree off on a cross-country trip to find the boy, and perhaps find herself.

Transamerica contains the shooting script, production notes, scene notes written exclusively for this book, and new essays by writer/director Duncan Tucker, a foreword by Wall Street Journal film critic Joe Morgenstern, and film stills.

What people say:

"Mr. Tucker is a subtle and conscientious writer; he takes care to treat Bree as a person rather than a case study." — New York Times

About the Screenwriter:

Duncan Tucker is an American film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed his first feature film, Transamerica.