Thelma & Louise tells the story of unhappily married housewife Thelma Dickinson (Geena Davis) and diner waitress Louise Sawyer (Susan Sarandon), two friends from Arkansas who set off in Louise's 1966 Thunderbird convertible for a carefree weekend away to escape their small-town lives. However, their trip takes an unexpected turn when Louise shoots a would-be rapist (Timothy Carhart) and, convinced no one will believe their story, they hit the road and head towards Mexico, embarking on an impromptu cross-country crime spree along the way.
Little Miss Sunshine tells the story of unsuccessful motivational speaker Richard Hoover (Greg Kinnear), his overworked wife Sheryl (Toni Collette), their 7-year-old beauty pageant-obsessed daughter Olive (Abigail Breslin) and 15-year-old mute-by-choice son Dwayne (Paul Dano) who, along with Richard's heroin-snorting father Edwin (Alan Arkin) and Sheryl's suicidal brother Frank (Steve Carell), set off in a Volkswagen van on a cross-country road trip from Albuquerque to California so Olive can fulfil her dream of competing in the "Little Miss Sunshine" beauty pageant.
Transamerica follows Sabrina "Bree" Osbourne (Felicity Huffman), a pre-op male-to-female transsexual from Los Angeles who discovers she's the biological father of Toby Wilkins (Kevin Zegers), a 17-year-old street hustler who's the (unexpected) result of a sexual encounter Bree had in college when she was living as a man named Stanley Schupak. Bree's therapist Margaret (Elizabeth Peña) tells her she won’t sign off on her impending gender reassignment surgery until Bree confronts the issue, so she reluctantly flies to New York to meet Toby and as a result offers him a ride back to Los Angeles.
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