Compelling from beginning to end, "Gun Hill Road" is a powerful and touching picture about race, gender, and family that refuses to incorporate stereotypes or cliches into it's scorching script. The three leads serve up great performances in a movie that offers no pat solutions for it's tough subject matter.Mexican tough Enrique (Esai Morales) gets out of prison to find his world has changed dramatically- his wife, Angie (Judy Reyes,) is involved with another man, while his son Micheal (Harmony Santana) is looking and behaving more and more like a girl.
Michael, who is transgendered (and played by a real-life intersexual,) who has ambivalent emotions about his dad getting out of the can, is saving up his money for a painful and strenuous sex reassignment surgery, and his traditional dad is not even close to accepting his son's identity as a woman.
