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...Just Like a Woman" draws no laughs compared to the flamboyant fun of "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" and the slapstick humor of "Mrs. Doubtfire." This serious film tells the true story of Englishwoman Monica Jay (Julie Walters), a lonely, fortysomething Middlesex housewife who becomes involved with Gerald (Adrian Pasdar), an American, a heterosexual and a sometime transvestite...
...enough, Gerald is thrown out of the house by his wife, who is suspicious of another woman who has left her clothes and makeup on the bed ("Who-ever she is, she's got terrible taste."). Gerald ends up in a boarding house run by the lively, recently divorced Monica...
After a few awkward encounters, things progress predictably. They make love (rather quickly, one notes with disappointment for Monica) and after a long, painful silence, Adrian tells Monica that he's a cross-dresser. The housewife giggles for a spell but soon enough she accepts Gerald for what he is--a straight man who enjoys cross-dressing...
...most daring and stimulating scene is the one which introduces Monica to Geraldine, Gerald's female persona. Gerald goes through a slow and shadowy transformation into a new creature, strange but not grotesque to Monica. Monica becomes child-like, awed by the change and is seduced by the tall, bewigged Geraldine...
...last person to see Carter alive, it seems, was Oosterbroek's widow, Monica. As night fell, Carter turned up unannounced at her home to vent his troubles. Still recovering from her husband's death three months earlier, she was in little condition to offer counsel. They parted at about...