Originally Posted by
MysteryWoman
My favorite CD movie is "Just Like a Woman", made in 1992. I don't think it's available on DVD, but it can be seen in pieces on YouTube. I highly recommend it as the most realistic and sympathetic treatment of our favorite subject that I've seen.
The film stars a little known actor named Adrian Pasdar as a London businessman named Gerald who happens to be a crossdresser. Gerald's wife discovers some of his feminine undergarments, and thinking they belong to a mistress, throws both Gerald and the clothes out of the house.
Gerald rents a flat from a landlady named Monica, played by Julie Walters, who is perfect in her role. Monica becomes suspicious of the mysterious woman who comes in and out of Gerald's flat, and when she questions him about it, he confesses that he likes to dress as a woman.
Monica's initial reaction is to laugh, thinking that the prospect of Gerald in feminine attire is hilarious. But when Gerald tells her that she is the first person he has ever confided in, she immediately regrets her behavior. As Gerald goes back to his flat to pack his things in humiliation, Monica comes up and asks if she can meet "Geraldine". Gerald reluctantly obliges, and after he is transformed, he embraces her passionately.
Although Monica is confused, she accepts his crossdressing, and they begin a relationship that evolves through many discoveries. At one point Gerald resolves to cure himself by seeking help from a hypnotist, who conditions him to be repulsed by the thought of dressing in female clothes. In a hilarious scene, Gerald asks Monica to test him by placing a pile of his favorite undergarments on the bed. She asks cautiously, "What do you want to do with them?" After a long pause he blurts out, "I want to put them on". Gleefully she replies, "Well then by all means, put them on!"
Monica becomes more and more comfortable with "Geraldine", accompanying her to crossdresser dinners, helping her shop, and telling her lady friends "how great her boyfriend looks in frocks". There is also a very erotic scene in which Geraldine and Monica dance slowly, their bodies rubbing together while clad in silky slips--it's kind of the ultimate SO-acceptance fantasy.
There is a silly subplot about Monica and Geraldine thwarting a business scam, but the heart of this movie is the story of how one understanding woman coped with her lover's strange passion. The movie concludes with screen text text saying that as many as one man in every hundred likes to wear women's clothes. It ends with the provocative statement, "He could be sitting next to you right now".