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A Kid Like Jake
2018, 92 minutes

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Media type
Country of origin

United States of America

Production company

Bankside Films

Filming locations

New York City, New York, United States of America

Technical specs

Colour

Languages

English/English

Content Warnings
Unreviewed
Description

Brooklyn parents Alex (Claire Danes) and Greg (Jim Parsons) are lucky to have a kid like Jake. Their four-year-old is bright, precocious, creative—and just happens to prefer Disney princesses to toy cars and skirts to jeans. Jake’s “gender expansive” behavior—as local preschool director Judy (Octavia Spencer) dubs it—is no big deal to Alex and Greg. Or so it seems, until the process of navigating New York City’s hyper-competitive private school system opens up a parental quagmire: could Jake’s gender nonconformity be just the thing that gives their child an edge in the admissions game? How young is too young to put a label on a child’s identity? Is this just a phase, or is Jake truly transgender? Split in their opinions on how to handle the situation, Alex and Greg find themselves navigating an emotional and ethical minefield with one patch of common ground between them: their fierce desire to do what’s right for Jake. Transparent director Silas Howard helms this timely, honest, emotionally rich look at 21st-century parenting.

IFC Films. “A Kid Like Jake.” Accessed March 13, 2025. https://www.ifcfilms.com/films/a-kid-like-jake.

Loving parents of a four-year-old must come to terms with their child being transgender.

Bankside Films. “A Kid Like Jake.” Accessed March 13, 2025. https://www.bankside-films.com/films/a-kid-like-jake.

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