Southern Comfort (2001 film)

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Southern Comfort
Directed by	Kate Davis
Produced by	Kate Davis
Music by	Joel Harrison
Cinematography	Kate Davis
Editing by	Kate Davis
Distributed by	HBO Documentary
Release date(s)	2001
Running time	90 mins
Country	USA
Language	English
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Southern Comfort is a 2001 documentary film about the final year in the life of Robert Eads, a female-to-male transsexual. Eads, diagnosed with ovarian cancer, was turned down for treatment by two dozen doctors out of fear that treating such a patient would hurt their reputation. By the time Eads received treatment, the cancer was too advanced to save his life.

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[edit] Plot

The film begins in the spring. Eads falls in love with Lola, a male-to-female transsexual woman. He spends those remaining warm days in the company of his "chosen family:" Max, Cass, and "the rest". That summer, his mother and father drive ten hours to visit Robert, who is still their daughter in their eyes. Later that year, Eads makes his last appearance at the Southern Comfort Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, a prominent transgender gathering. Already feeling ill, he addresses a crowd of 500 and takes Lola to what is for them a prom that never was. Also appearing in the film are Eads' friends Tom and Debbie King. They were responsible for saving Robert's life as he collapsed in a pool of his own blood while staying with them.

After Eads' death, his ashes were spread across the family farm around a lone Christmas tree which was to symbolize Robert's many changes and blossoms in life.