52 Tuesdays
52 Tuesdays is a 2013 Australian coming-of-age drama film directed by Sophie Hyde, with the screenplay written by Matthew Cormack and story by Cormack and Hyde. The film centers on a teenage girl dealing with the gender transition of a parent. The film was shown at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, where it was not only nominated for the Grand Jury Prize but won the Best Director Award. Over the following year it won numerous other awards and garnered global critical acclaim.
Plot
16-year-old Billie lives in suburban Australia. One of her parents comes out to her as a transgender man named James. Billie then learns that James wants Billie to live with her other parent, James's ex-husband Tom, for a year. This restricts Billie is time with James to Tuesdays from 16:00 - 22:00, starting on 23 August. The film is divided into the corresponding 52 segments, each covering one Tuesday and starting with a title card showing the date.
Each Tuesday, after visiting James and before returning to Tom, Billie has secret encounters with two older students, Josh and Jasmine, in an apartment that her uncle Harry allows them to use. Billie films sexual experiments of the threesome.
James meets a setback in his transition when his body does not tolerate testosterone injections, and he has to stop them.
After sending a nude photograph of herself to Jasmine, Billie gets into trouble as this is considered child pornography. The school principal, James, Tom, and Jasmine, strongly disapprove it. Billie is shocked that James destroys one of her tapes and refuses further contact with him. Because of Tom's disapproval, Josh does not want physical contact with Billie anymore.
Later, Billie is willing to destroy the remaining tape, but since it is in James's house whom she no longer visits, she is dependent on Harry, who finally destroys it for her.
When the year is finished, Billie reconciles with James and starts living with him again. Also, Billie, Josh, and Jasmine become friends again.
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