Information for Parents

Transamerica

Transamerica

Common Sense Media Age 17

Parents Need To Know

Positive Messages
This film encourages viewers to be more sensitive to people who are different. It shows how destructive judgmental parents can be to children's mental health. It also encourages a more realistic understanding of family -- that it's messy and complicated -- but still valuable.
Positive Role Models & Representations
Violence
Several fistfights and punches. Indication of previous sexual abuse.
Sex
Discusses genitals regularly, and features brief, nonsexual glimpses of both male and female body parts. One brief scene where a teen boy solicits sex with a trucker -- nothing graphic shown, but it's clear what's going on. In another scene the teen boy unwittingly comes on to Bree and we see his naked body from behind. In another brief scene the teen is in a porn film and gets manipulated just slightly off screen in a matter-of-fact manner.
Language
Infrequent cursing, but everything from "f--k" to "bitch" pops up a few times.
Consumerism
Not applicable
Education Value
Ease of Play
Privacy
The teen boy smokes cigarettes, drinks alcohol, and uses drugs (snorts a powder) several times, though adults discourage this. In the end, Bree chooses to give her son a beer.
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