A factory worker (Tom Wilkinson) shocks his wife (Jessica Lange) and children when he announces that he wants a sex-change operation.
husband, wife, son, daughter, boss, emotional, moving, illinois, household, church, gender identity, family, sexual taboo, discovery, transformation, 2000s
... almost every line of dialogue has at least two meanings, one literal and the other either pop-anthropological or pomo-ironic. And yet Normal, unlike About Schmidt, actually seems to like its characters, and they seem to like each other.
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