Boy Meets Girl

Boy Meets Girl is a 2014 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Eric Schaeffer and starring Michelle Hendley as a trans woman living in a small town in Kentucky, looking for love. Plot 21-year-old Ricky is a transgender woman living in a small town in Kentucky with big dreams to move to New York and attend a school of fashion design. Ricky is working as a barista and spends most of her time hanging out with her only friend Robby, who has been by her side for the past 15 years. One day while Ricky is at work, Francesca, a woman from town, walks in and a friendship unexpectedly blossoms that then turns into an affair. Cast Michael Welch as Robby Riley Robert Racco as 9-year-old Robby Riley Michelle Hendley as Ricky Jones Rachel Racco as 9-year-old Ricky Jones Alexandra Turshen as Francesca Duval Michael Galante as David Randall Newsome as Hank Jones Joseph Ricci as Sam Jones Elizabeth Ward Land as Helen Duval Christopher McHale as Dayton Duval Critical reception Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a favorable review, calling it a "lovely story, one which brims with credible, enormously heartfelt emotion". The Washington Post gave it two stars out of four, stating that "Boy Meets Girl comes across not just as an emotional story, but also an earnestly instructive one."