Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Normal / HBO Films presents an Avenue Pictures production, a film by Jane Anderson ; written & directed by Jane Anderson ; executive producer, Cary Brokaw and Lydia Dean Pilcher.

Edition:

Widescreen version (16x9).

Publisher, Date:

New York, NY : HBO Video, [2003]

Description:

1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Roy and Irma are a devoted couple living a normal life in rural Illinois. At a party celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary, Roy inexplicably blacks out. As he awakens, it is with the realization that his life must change forever. Roy confesses to Irma that he's a woman trapped in a man's body and that he wants a sex change. A surprise to his wife, turns out to be a shock to the church-going community. Now Roy must face his friends, co-workers and his own children as he confronts his own transformation.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: Not rated; adult content, adult language, brief nudity.

Subjects:

Gender transition -- Drama.

Married people -- Drama.

Families -- Illinois -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Comedy films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Anderson, Jane, 1954- screenwriter, director.

Brokaw, Cary, producer.

Pilcher, Lydia Dean, producer.

Lange, Jessica, actor.

Wilkinson, Tom, 1948-2023 actor.

Panettiere, Hayden, actor.

Brown, Clancy, actor.

Sikora, Joe, actor.

Arney, Randall, actor.

Bull, Richard, 1924-2014, actor.

Seibel, Mary, actor.

Kivilo, Alar, cinematographer.

Fruchtman, Lisa, film editor.

Wurman, Alex, composer.

Hanafin, Hope, costume designer.

Ruscio, Nina, designer.

HBO Films.

Avenue Pictures.

HBO Video (Firm), publisher.

Notes:

Based on the play "Looking for normal" by Jane Anderson.

Originally produced as a television movie in 2003.

Special features: audio commentary by writer/director Jane Anderson, cast and director bios.

Director of photography, Alar Kivilo ; editor, Lisa Fruchtman ; music, Alex Wurman ; costume designer, Hope Hannafin ; production designer, Nina Ruscio.

Jessica Lange, Tom Wilkinson, Hayden Panettiere, Clancy Brown, Joe Sikora, Randall Arney, Richard Bull, Mary Seibel.

DVD, Region 1 encoding, Dolby digital, Dolby surround.

English or French dialogue, English, French or Spanish subtitles; Closed-captioned.

Emmy Awards, 2003: Emmy - Outstanding Makeup for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Non-Prosthetic) (Hallie D'Amore (key makeup artist), Linda Melazzo (makeup artist), Dorothy J. Pearl (makeup for Ms. Lange)).

ISBN:

0783123663

9780783123660

Publisher Number:

92025

Other Number:

52605978

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

917167

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD TV Normal