MOVIEmeter
SEE RANK
Down 838 this week

XXY (2007)

 -  Drama  -  2 May 2008 (USA)
7.1
Your rating:
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -/10 X  
Ratings: 7.1/10 from 6,822 users   Metascore: 67/100
Reviews: 33 user | 78 critic | 15 from Metacritic.com

This is the dramatic story of a intersexed 15-year-old. She lives with her parents, who have to cope with the challenges of her medical condition.

Director:

Writers:

(screenplay), (short story "Cinismo")
Watch Trailer
0Check in
0Share...

User Lists

Related lists from IMDb users

a list of 3595 titles created 2 months ago
 
a list of 1456 titles created 3 months ago
 
a list of 32 titles created 30 Apr 2011
 
a list of 55 titles created 20 May 2011
 
a list of 126 titles created 4 months ago
 

Connect with IMDb


Share this Rating

Title: XXY (2007)

XXY (2007) on IMDb 7.1/10

Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.

Take The Quiz!

Test your knowledge of XXY.
22 wins & 12 nominations. See more awards »

Videos

Photos

Learn more

People who liked this also liked... 

Talk to Her (2002)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8/10 X  

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for their girlfriends who are both in deep comas.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling
An Education (2009)
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.3/10 X  

A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.

Director: Lone Scherfig
Stars: Carey Mulligan, Olivia Williams, Alfred Molina
Drama | Horror | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.6/10 X  

A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.9/10 X  

Drama about a woman who assists her friend to arrange an illegal abortion in 1980's Romania.

Director: Cristian Mungiu
Stars: Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov
A Single Man (2009)
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.5/10 X  

An English professor, one year after the sudden death of his boyfriend, is unable to cope with his typical days in 1960s Los Angeles.

Director: Tom Ford
Stars: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.8/10 X  

A Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father's former girlfriend.

Director: Fatih Akin
Stars: Baki Davrak, Gürsoy Gemec, Gengiz Daner
Biutiful (2010)
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.4/10 X  

This is the story of Uxbal, a man living in this world, but able to see his death, which guides his every move.

Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Stars: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.7/10 X  

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

Director: Gregg Araki
Stars: Chase Ellison, Elisabeth Shue, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.8/10 X  

Young Esteban want to become a writer and also to discover the identity of his father, carefully concealed by the mother Manuela.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña
Babel (2006)
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.5/10 X  

Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.

Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Stars: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Mohamed Akhzam
Fish Tank (2009)
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.3/10 X  

Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.

Director: Andrea Arnold
Stars: Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender, Kierston Wareing
The Class (2008)
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.6/10 X  

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

Director: Laurent Cantet
Stars: François Bégaudeau, Agame Malembo-Emene, Angélica Sancio
Edit

Cast

Complete credited cast:
...
Kraken
Valeria Bertuccelli ...
Suli
Germán Palacios ...
Ramiro
Carolina Pelleritti ...
Erika (as Carolina Peleritti)
Martín Piroyansky ...
Inés Efron ...
Guillermo Angelelli ...
Juan
...
Washington
Jean Pierre Reguerraz ...
Esteban
Ailín Salas ...
Luciano Nóbile ...
Vando (as Luciano Martín Nóbile)
Lucas Escariz ...
Saul
Edit

Storyline

In a small coastal town of fishermen in Uruguay, the biologist Kraken works and lives in a house at the sea side with his wife Suli and their aggressive fifteen year-old daughter Alex. When Suli welcomes her former best friend Erika that comes with her husband, the surgeon Ramiro and their teenage son Alvaro to spend a couple of days with her family, Kraken learns that his wife invited Ramiro to operate Alex. Meanwhile Alex and Alvaro feel attracted by each other; however, Alvaro finds that Alex is hermaphrodite and she finds that Alvaro is gay. But the troubled and outcast Alex has the right to choose what gender she wants for her. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Summary | Plot Synopsis

Genres:

Drama

Certificate:

Unrated | See all certifications »

Parents Guide:

 »
Edit

Details

Country:

| |

Language:

Release Date:

2 May 2008 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

XXY - Uomini, donne o tutti e due?  »

Filming Locations:


Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$3,241 (USA) (2 May 2008)

Gross:

$46,011 (USA) (17 October 2008)
 »

Company Credits

Show detailed on  »

Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

Color:

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1
See  »
Edit

Did You Know?

Trivia

On September 27, 2007, XXY was chosen to represent Argentina at the Oscars, for the Best Foreign Language Film category. In a rare sweep, it was also chosen to represent Argentina at Spain's Goya Awards, for Best Foreign Film in Spanish. The tradition has been for two separate films to be sent to one of the awards each. The runner-up this year, in both cases, was La señal, also starring (and co-directed by) Ricardo Darín. See more »

Goofs

In the scene that Alex, Alvaro and Vando are smoking and drinking by the fire, Alex and Vando stay up to pee while the camera shows a quiet Alvaro. For a moment, you can still hear the sound of the liquid moving inside the bottle as if he was drinking, while the camera shows that he is sitting still and the bottle is on the ground. See more »

Quotes

Alex: What do you regret the most? Not seeing me again, or not having seen it?
See more »

Frequently Asked Questions

This FAQ is empty. Add the first question.

User Reviews

 
Contemporary way of looking at Hermaphrodism.
7 October 2007 | by (Argentina) – See all my reviews

I Just saw this new movie from the Argentinian cinema and found it deeply moving.

To me the idea of showing the inner struggle of an hermaphrodite with such a profound respect was a First. I never saw a movie treating this issue before --not at all in a Hollywood product!!-- and never so seriously and delicately.

Not only his/her struggle, but both his/hers parents. His/hers parents lived 15 years (the child's present age as shown in the movie) of sheer torment. What could they do about the problem? Where could they go to talk about it without raising eyebrows? - the world can be terribly cruel with anyone "different".

I remember only one scene with an albino hermaphrodite in a frontal nude scene in a Fellini movie -"Satyricon"- But there, it was used only as shock value. A freak case. Not here! This is a very humane movie, very tender in it's treatment of a very delicate problem (Could it be because the director is a woman?).

*SPOILERS AHEAD*

And the beautiful, truly beautiful ending! in the past a character like this one was always killed at the end: It drowned, it fell in an abyss. It perished, no matter how. It did not have the right to live.

It seems that now we have grown to be more mature somehow; in this movie, not only the hermaphrodite refuses to be operated on, to become either a man or a woman, NO! she decides to remain what she is: A naturally born human being with BOTH SEXES. And really...Why not?? Great film! great, GREAT film!

*END OF SPOILERS*

Technically though, I found a couple of faults: Although my mother tongue is Spanish, after a while I had to put the subtitles on, since almost all the actors (Mainly Ricardo Darin -the father of the hermaphrodite) go through the movie mumbling their words, sort of like Marlon Brando used to do thanks to the Actor's Studio's Method, and I was missing part of the dialogue (My hearing is excellent, but the straining wasn't worth it, and I was using headphones!); also they talked in extremely low voices, so, since the sea rumble or the rain noise are on most of the time as background sound (They are on location in an Uruguayan beach town), they drowned the actors voices most of the time.

I imagine the director wanted to give the feeling of casual, nonchalant conversation, fine, but you can come up with a more efficient sound quality employing other ways, not as it was done in this movie (Maybe they didn't have enough budget, or the sound wasn't top drawer, I don't know).

The other fault was the length of some scenes..., it looked like one of those old 60s movies from Sweden, where the actors were shown on profile, looking to the right into the horizon for two full minutes without speaking a word or moving at all.

But these two faults are minor really. This film makes you think about the very wrong and terribly unjust ways of contemporary society when looking at minorities. Excellent all actors and a superb director.


31 of 38 people found this review helpful.  Was this review helpful to you?

Message Boards

Recent Posts
XXY vs Alex (from a medical perspective) tetris4
The eternal debate... AlextheJaguar
Other films about intersex people? historymaker19
Actuación de Ines winona28
Did Alvaro really love Alex? yakopian
Alvaro is not gay. Alvaro is everyone. jbjjunk
Discuss XXY (2007) on the IMDb message boards »

Contribute to This Page

Create a character page for:
?