Mercedes Ruehl plays a mother struggling to accept her transgender child in this fact-based story, which offers a moving and sensitive account of a teen, born a boy named Eddie Araujo, who feels he's a female trapped in the wrong body. J.D. Pardo. Mami: Lupe Ontiveros. Papi: Henry Darrow. Joey: Corey Stoll. Directed by Agnieszka Holland.