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Boys Don't Cry
Young female-to-male transgender Brandon Teena leaves his hometown under threat when his ex-girlfriend's brother discovers that he's biologically female. In Nebraska, Brandon attempts to find himself and love.
11 June 1969, New York City, New York, USA
29 July 1954, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
28 April 1981, Temple, Texas, USA
21 February 1980, Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA
15 August 1941, Cooke County, Texas, USA
31 January 1927, Dallas, Texas, USA
30 July 1974, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
1971, Costa Mesa, California, USA
22 June 1974, Evanston, Illinois, USA
10 August 1978, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
7 March 1971, Belleville, Illinois, USA
22 April 1980, Dallas, Texas, USA
October 18, 2008
...undoubtedly benefits from Swank's searing, justifiably lauded performance.
January 03, 2007
The casting is nothing short of brilliant.
October 21, 2007
The shock is not in the tragic ending, but the devastating emotional effect Kimberly Peirce is able to achieve through mere nuance.
May 28, 2012
[VIDEO ESSAY] Kimberly Pierce's remarkable 1999 filmic version of Brandon Teena's last days is a scalding indictment of the kind of consciously ignorant intolerance that runs disgracefully through America's Heartland and Southern states.
January 31, 2008
Nail-tough yet poetic.
January 01, 2000
Lyrical and galvanizing.
July 09, 2011
Time has made Kimberly Peirce's dramatic debut about sexual misfit, stunningly played by Hilary Swank, even more relevant and powerful.
January 01, 2000
The movie lets down the material. It's too cool: all attitude, no sizzle--horror under glass.
January 01, 2000
Swank is impressive in the lead role.
January 01, 2000
With its constant juxtaposition of blazing nighttime highwayscapes and the flat Nebraska skyline, Boys Don't Cry manages to perfectly evoke both a life spent in aimless forward motion and the stifling boredom Brandon was so desperate to escape.
January 01, 2000
Driven by performances of such luminous humanity that they break your heart.
January 01, 2000
The film is framed, too unquestioningly, as a transgender Rebel Without a Cause, with Brandon the martyred innocent who dies for her infatuations.
