"It's ROCKY in mascara!" shouts an excited sports commentator, and the description couldn't be more apt. This fanciful biography of transgendered Thai kickboxer Nong Toom works both as an underdog-makes-good sports drama and an affectionate tribute to a gender-bending pioneer who became a national hero while remaining true to himself. Divided into three distinct acts, the film begins with the now-adult Nong Toom (nicely played by the real-life Muay Thai champ Asanee Suwan) remembering the moments when, as the poor child of itinerant farmers in the northern Chiang Mai province, he realized he was destined to be first a girl, then a boxer. Sickened as a child by the si...
Released:
2003
Rated:
R
Length:
118 mins