To me, this movie is perfection.

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

OK.This is going to be shallow I've read the other review on this film and this is graded E compared to them but please let me say my thoughts on this wonderful masterpiece.I didn't expect Im going to like it since I had a hard time understanding Brits accent(and English language in general) what I get is Karl / Kim (Steven Mackintosh) is having a trouble on her life because she's a trans plus its gotten even worse when she met her lost best friend Paul Prentice (Rupert Graves), this menace ruined her reserved and peaceful live. Fortunately this ends up on sweet,erotic happy ending.And the love scene is very moving. I almost forgot there is somebody sitting next to me.

yes if i was asked to take just one film to watch on a desert island this is it. the script perfect love the part where Angela hits nail on head when she dumps poor Prentice without actually knowing what the full story is. the way they tell the story to the newspaper brilliant - talk about revenge and having the last laugh with the school bully. have recommended this film to friends and they want to watch again. the film ends too too soon when they disappear around that corner you want to follow them and find out what happens next as the credits roll it is hard to believe it is just a film as you really care about and get to know all the characters. a brilliant piece of directing and script writing. cannot praise this film highly enough and have watched it well into double figures. R.I.P Charlotte Coleman - Alison

Generally I am not as forgiving with 'GLBT films', and that is due to the fact that most of them fall into the same old, same old patterns and often come off as either stereotypical or insulting. When I heard about this film, I thought it might actually be an amusing diversion.However, that couldn't be far from the truth; for one thing it's neither funny nor witty (except on a decidedly sophomoric level), and in fact it's a bleak and depressing affair with no attention given to entertainment of any kind. For another it's very poorly realised; if they knew they couldn't show something convincingly, they shouldn't have done so at all. In the completely gratuitous nude scene 'Kim' and her breasts look like hollow plastic bought on the cheap at a Halloween sale. Last but not least of all, everyone in it is so badly-directed and, well, badly-everything: the truth about 'Kim' is easily guessed from the outset as they chose a horse-faced actor to portray 'her', and the usually charming and handsome Rupert Graves is woefully miscast in a role that is jarringly inappropriate for him. A talented actor he is indeed, but along with everyone else he was not convincing in the look or character he portrayed here.Likewise gratuitous is the scene where he flops out his phallus for no convincing reason other than for the makers of the film to say they included front male nudity, a common thread in most GLBT films that would otherwise not draw any audience whatsoever. It's employed much the same way here, incongruous and groan-worthy. One can only imagine Rupert really needed the paycheck. Completing the trilogy of gratuitousness is the subplot with the sister, which comes literally out of nowhere and takes its time finding its way back to exactly the same place.If you like watching films along the calibre of the abysmal Lifetime network Movies of the Week, this will be right up your alley. If you prefer something less condescending and more cerebral, less stereotypical and more unique, look for something else. Essentially this film is nothing more than a stock female 'romantic comedy' -- with inclusions of 'comedy' that can barely be called token -- with a gratuitous transsexual 'twist' to it, and that is handled in an extremely unconvincing way by both characters and actors.Perhaps I just don't see the point of another film where a male 'falls in love' with a female (whatever the circumstances), especially since it's just unnecessarily complicated by a contrived backstory. This is nothing more than a stock film with unexceptional performances, poor direction, bad makeup and costumes, and atrocious casting that attempts to incorporate a single 'controversial' quality to make it seem 'edgy' and thus somehow worthy of praise. These sorts of filmmakers know all too well that the LGBT community does, on the whole, latch protectively onto any film that gives even the remotest positive portrayal of any of their number, and they take advantage of it. I really wish more of us included in that number could see through transparent, lamentably bad attempts like this to simply draw undeserved praise for nothing special.

I am a male to female transsexual, and all I can say is this is the first and ONLY film I have seen handle this subject matter with taste and tact.It sat on my shelf for two years before I watched it. I have seen this theme abused and twisted too many times, and I had assumed the worst. I'm very happy to say I got a very pleasant surprise.Steven Makintosh did a wonderful job of playing Kim, and the fact that Kim's body is not "perfect" is a touch of reality seldom shown when movies or television fictionalize transition.It was an honest approach, as opposed to the the usual "and far less realistic" sexy female actress that a Hollywood would have insisted on using.Kim does not live as a "transgendered person" as is implied in some reviews but as a normal white collar woman in London, her old school friend comes into her structured and very low profile life and turns it upside down from emotional outbursts in restaurants, to a confrontation with the police.His growing acceptance of Kim as a woman, and their growing relationship are wonderful to behold.I don't want to give anything away, but from yet another person who's "been there" the film went between having me on the edge of my seat to having me in tears.I cannot rate this film too highly."For people who NEED a nitpick, I think seeing Pauls girl friends reaction to goings on would have been good, she sort of just drops out of the plot and you never really know why"