The Opposite Sex: Jamie's Story

2004 | 73 minutes | 0.0 ★ (0)

The Opposite Sex: Jamie's Story
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    Forty-seven-year-old Jim Alter pursued manly roles so successfully for so long -- playing football, starting a family, running auto-shop and construction businesses, hanging with the guys -- that the shock was total when he announced he would now cross-dress (and, eventually, undergo sex-change surgery) as a woman. Reactions range from his mother's earnest bewilderment to the scandalized fury of in-laws. Only wife of 25 years Brenda retrospectively sees signs she'd ignored of the cross-dressing, then hormone-taking "alter ego" he managed to keep secret for decades.

  • Release Date

    07 June 2004

  • DirectingJosh Aronson
  • Budget

    $0.00

  • Revenue

    $0.00

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