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Boys Don't Cry
Directed by
Kimberly Peirce
R
1999
1h 58m
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A young transgender man named Brandon navigates love, life, and trying to pass as a boy in rural Nebraska.
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Cast of Boys Don't Cry
Hilary Swank
Brandon Teena
Chloë Sevigny
Lana Tisdel
Peter Sarsgaard
John Lotter
Brendan Sexton III
Tom Nissen
Alicia Goranson
Candace
Alison Folland
Kate
Jeannetta Arnette
Lana's Mom
Rob Campbell
Brian
Matt McGrath
Lonny
Cheyenne Rushing
Nicole
Lou Perryman
Sheriff
Paige Carl Griggs
Dave (Deputy)
Jerry Haynes
Judge
Shana McClendon
Girl in Car
Libby Villari
Nurse
Gail Cronauer
Clerk
Robert Prentiss
Trucker
Josh Ridgway
Kwik Stop Cashier
Stephanie Sechrist
April
Craig Erickson
Trucker in Kwik Stop
Boys Don't Cry Ratings & Reviews
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
It's not a stretch to say that director Kimberly Peirce's 1999 Academy Award-winning debut Boys Don't Cry helped save my life.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The first time I saw the movie, I was completely absorbed by the characters... Only later did I fully realize what a great film it is, a worthy companion to those other masterpieces of death on the prairie, Badlands and In Cold Blood.
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Boys Don't Cry not only revisits the crime, but convinces us we're being taken inside it.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Director Pierce and Bienen and the expert cast engage us in the actuality of these rootless, hopeless, stoned-out lives without sentimentalizing or romanticizing them.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Lyrical and galvanizing.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
Stunning.
USA Today
Mike Clark
Peirce seems to have researched her subject with grad-school-thesis intensity.
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
The movie lets down the material. It's too cool: all attitude, no sizzle--horror under glass.
Film.com
Gemma Files
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.
Houston Chronicle
Louis B. Parks
Powerful and unpretentious.
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
If hers is not a star-making performance, it's a wake-up call to anybody who thought the last time Swank would kick ass was in The Next Karate Kid.
Film.com
Ernest Hardy
Swank is impressive in the lead role.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Peter Rainer
The film is framed, too unquestioningly, as a transgender Rebel Without a Cause, with Brandon the martyred innocent who dies for her infatuations.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
[Hilary Swank] has come out of nowhere to deliver one of the year's finest pieces of acting.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
What either of these movies has to do with real events probably remains difficult to determine for anyone but a specialist, but as mythologies they both have plenty of staying power.
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
A stirring, emotionally true testament to foolish bravery as well as shameful evidence of the severity with which it is so often punished.
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
A haunting, superbly made film.
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