Boys Don't Cry
Kimberly Peirce / US, 1999 / 118 min.
Brandon, a young trans man, arrives in a small town in the American midwest looking for friendship and love. Brandon finds love with Lana (Chloë Sevigny), but the locals’ stereotypes bring their idyll to a gruesome end. Oscar for Hilary Swank.
Boys Don't Cry, one of the big independent films from the 1990’s was based on the real-life murder of Brandon Teena in small town America in 1993, transforming the newspaper report into an empathetic, confrontational drama that was one of the few at the time to centre on a transgender person’s perspective.
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Director
Kimberly Peirce
Production year
1999
Country
US
Original title
Boys Don't Cry
Length
118 min.
Language
English
Subtitles
NLD
Format
35mm
Part of
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