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Phoenix and Reeves make a brave departure from their usual teen heart-throb roles in this controversial movie. Van Sant's impressive third feature has enough ideas to fill three movies, a plenitude that threatens to blow the film apart (but never does). It's a road movie filmed mainly from the point of view of gay hustler Mike (Phoenix, superb), a narcoleptic who falls unconscious without warning at moments of stress. As Mike tours the Pacific Northwest doing 'dates', he meets up with mayor's so find out more...

Bree is a remarkable woman, and only part of this is her birth identity as a male and her near-ending struggle to become a physical woman. As if Bree's life was not complicated enough she discovers she has a troubled teenage son and is reluctantly persuaded to travel to New York and bail him out of jail. So begins an odyssey for the unlikely duo as they travel back across country to Los Angeles, each keeping their secrets closely guarded but each also drawn increasingly towards the other. Witty, find out more...