A GENDER FLIPPING COMEDY

Feature Film & Live Action

What makes a superhero a superhero? Most of them have a power that can be used for good or for evil. Many have their special power forced on them. And there's always a tragic creation story.

Sam Sweet is no exception: the power and vision to change lives; a freak accident in a lab; and parents killed in a tragic car crash.

But Sam is like no other that has come before. Sam can flip genders.

This full-length feature film takes a light-hearted look at the life of a modern Manhattanite saddled with a problem.

Through an aberrant incident in the lab of a fertility clinic, Sam is born with the uncontrollable ability to change genders. Stress or heightened emotions (love, anger, fear) cause Sam to go from male to female or vice versa. For most of Sam's childhood, Sam is sheltered by loving parents. But when a traffic accident kills them both, the 21-year-old is forced to cope with a world of opportunistic lawyers, jilted family members, and persistent suitors.

Through a series of comic events, Sam learns how to make a curse into a blessing and turn a problem into a powerful agent of change.

Comic novelist Jennifer Finney Boylan makes the most of her "levitating wit" in the screenplay of The Trouble With Sam. Boylan, a professor of creative writing and American literature at Colby College, is the author of nine books. Her most recent work, a memoir titled She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders quickly became a bestseller. It shot her to national attention, including guest visits to TV and radio talk shows and an episode on All My Children in which she leads a transgender support group. Her newest book, another memoir called I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted, will come out in the spring of 2008.