Normal (2003 film)

Normal
Genre	Drama
Based on	Looking for Normal by Jane Anderson
Written by	Jane Anderson
Directed by	Jane Anderson
Starring	Jessica Lange Tom Wilkinson
Music by	Alex Wurman
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Producers	Thomas J. Busch Cary Brokaw Lydia Dean Pilcher
Cinematography	Alar Kivilo
Editor	Lisa Fruchtman
Running time	110 minutes
Production companies	HBO Films Avenue Pictures
Original release
Network	HBO
Release	January 21, 2003 (2003-01-21)
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Normal is a 2003 American made-for-television drama film produced by HBO Films, which became an official selection at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.^[1] Jane Anderson, the film's writer and director, adapted her own play, Looking for Normal. The film is about a fictional Midwestern factory worker named Roy Applewood, who stuns his wife of 25 years by saying he wishes to undergo sex reassignment surgery and transition to a woman.

In an HBO interview, Anderson was asked "Were you drawing on any sources when you were researching this? Or was it purely out of your imagination?", to which she replied "Oh, it's my imagination, it's all fiction." She also said that she wanted to use the play "as a metaphor for a study of marriage", calling transition the "ultimate betrayal".^[2]