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Boys Don't Cry
The life of Brandon Teena, a young handsome guy who has been moved into a new town, where he makes a lot of friends and become one of the most beloved and known people there, has been turned upside down when people of the town know his real identity as a woman named Teena Brandon.
22 April 1980, Dallas, Texas, USA
23 December 1948, Dallas, Texas, USA
31 January 1927, Dallas, Texas, USA
15 March 1978, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
January 03, 2007
The casting is nothing short of brilliant.
January 01, 2000
Swank is impressive in the lead role.
January 01, 2000
The movie lets down the material. It's too cool: all attitude, no sizzle--horror under glass.
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
Driven by performances of such luminous humanity that they break your heart.
October 18, 2008
...undoubtedly benefits from Swank's searing, justifiably lauded performance.
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 31, 2008
Nail-tough yet poetic.
January 01, 2000
Lyrical and galvanizing.
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 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.
