They

2018 • 80 minutes
4.2
4 reviews
67%
Tomatometer
Eligible
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About this movie

Fourteen-year-old J goes by the pronoun 'They' and lives with their parents in the suburbs of Chicago. J is exploring their gender identity while taking hormone blockers to postpone puberty. After two years of medication and therapy, J has to make a decision about whether or not to transition; over this crucial weekend, while their parents are away, J's sister Lauren and her maybe/maybe-not boyfriend Araz arrive to take care of 'They.'

Ratings and reviews

4.2
4 reviews
Steve Benson
July 2, 2018
I found the film authentic, honest, real, sincere, and very affecting, allowing me to experience, intimately, not just life within a certain family in gruelingly trying transitions, but most centrally life within a young adolescent supported by the most cursory uncertainties and unstable resources of others in determining the grounds for destiny and identity for the indefinite future -- for a lifetime. Beautifully shot and impeccably performed. At times the words are hard to hear, but rather than run English subtitles, I let the ambiguities run over my attention and color it, as I think was intended.
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