A working-class man and his dying mother confront their understanding of themselves and their biases as they help the 8-year-old child they’re raising embrace her true self.
Q-tips say: Yes, we really enjoyed this movie. However, it may NOT be a movie for everyone.
Mrs. Q says: “Two Lives in Pittsburgh.” The growing awareness of new understandings of ourselves, the strength of support for a young person feeling like they are living in a body that belong to another gender, and the transformative power of (finally) acknowledging the truth of oneself can affect a whole a circle of people. Great-grandparent, care-giver, grandparent, friends, child … we could understand and root for everyone of them.