To get close to a crush, seniors Alex (Nico Carney) and Ethan (Misha Osherovich) pretend to be trans, a dicey proposition for sure. Here’s the twist, for one of them, she’s never felt so comfortable, so herself. Realizing she is in fact trans, the movie follows the fallout from that revelation.
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Debut writer/director Siobhan McCarthy’s She’s the He is a trans coming out/coming-of-age tale and subversion of raunchy, problematic ‘80s boner-jam comedies. As fun as that is, it works best when it abandons the spoofiness and settles into the core story. It’s bittersweet, earnest, and hilarious, never shying away from the messiness. It’s highly specific but also hits for everyone who’s struggled to discover who they truly are against who the world pushes them to be, and it captures the joy and pain of that journey. [Grade: A]
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