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Boys Don't Cry (1999) 7.5
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Metascore: 86/100
Reviews: 420 user | 114 critic | 33 from Metacritic.com The story of the life of Brandon Teena, a transgendered teen who preferred life in a male identity until it was discovered he was born biologically female. Director:Kimberly Peirce |
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Lonny
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Nicole
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April
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Based on actual events. Brandon Teena is the popular new guy in a tiny Nebraska town. He hangs out with the guys, drinking, cussing, and bumper surfing, and he charms the young women, who've never met a more sensitive and considerate young man. Life is good for Brandon, now that he's one of the guys and dating hometown beauty Lana. However, he's forgotten to mention one important detail. It's not that he's wanted in another town for GTA and other assorted crimes, but that Brandon Teena was actually born a woman named Teena Brandon. When his best friends make this discovery, Brandon's life is ripped apart. Written by Zhe
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A true story about finding the courage to be yourself.Genres:
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Rated R for violence including an intense brutal rape scene, sexuality, language and drug use | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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EnglishRelease Date:
29 October 1999 (Canada) See more »Also Known As:
Take It Like a Man See more »Box Office
Budget:
$2,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£79,576 (UK) (21 April 2000)Gross:
$11,533,945 (USA) (19 May 2000)Company Credits
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Fox Searchlight Pictures, The Independent Film Channel Productions, Killer Films See more »
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Candace: [laughs] Candace. I hate it though, I'm thinking of changing it.
Brandon: Sometimes that helps. I'm Brandon.
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Written by Ernie Isley, Marvin Isley, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley,
O'Kelly Isley and Chris Jasper
Performed by The Isley Brothers
Published by EMI April Music Inc. (ASCAP)
Courtesy of EMI Records under license from EMI-Capitol Music Special Markets
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Trivia
Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 25 Most Dangerous Movies." (In the description for the list, the magazine stated, "These are movies about which you could say, "That's Not Entertainment." They're not "rides" or "diversions." They are galvanizing experiences that place squarely in your face all the stuff Hollywood usually presumes you go to the movies to get away from. Films that rearrange your head, that challenge your bedrock ideas about life and love and the big sleep. Consciousness-expanders, in other words, but rarely in a pleasant way. Thank God for them.") See more »Goofs
The cuts and bruises on Brandon's face change while he talks to Lana inside the shack. See more »Quotes
Brandon: So what's your name?Candace: [laughs] Candace. I hate it though, I'm thinking of changing it.
Brandon: Sometimes that helps. I'm Brandon.
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Crazy Credits
Thanks to everyone who volunteered to speak about his or her experiences and help with research. See more »Soundtracks
"That Lady 'Part 1'"Written by Ernie Isley, Marvin Isley, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley,
O'Kelly Isley and Chris Jasper
Performed by The Isley Brothers
Published by EMI April Music Inc. (ASCAP)
Courtesy of EMI Records under license from EMI-Capitol Music Special Markets
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Teena Brandon (Hilary Swank) is a girl who wishes to become a boy… Arriving in the small Nebraska town of Falls City, Teena binds her breasts, cuts her hair and calls herself Brandon Teena…
When Brandon meets Lana (wonderfully played by Chloë Sevigny), a love affair develops in the course of which sexual identities and gender stereotype is turned upside down…
Eventually Lana comes to realize Brandon is anatomically female, but by then she does not care… Brandon offers her a caring relationship such as she has never known… Unfortunately, Brandon's secret is eventually discovered by two young men, John and Tom, who have befriended him… The knowledge that they have been deceived is deeply disturbing to their male pride…
The film is based on a true story, which also the subject of a documentary, 'The Brandon Teena Story' (1998). But it is less its status as a true-crime document, more its subtle power to subvert our usual assumptions about sexuality that makes this a notable film, and a key text of the so-called 'queer' cinema…
Unlike militant films which proselytize for homosexuality, 'queer' films adopt a more insidious strategy, seeking to undermine such rigid categories as gay and straight… Thus Brandon, in Hilary Swank's excellent interpretation of the role, alert to all the ambiguities, is not a lesbian though he/she has sex with women… And while he/she has adopted some of the physical attributes of a man (clothes, hair-style, certain mannerisms), Brandon has retained a softness and sensuality which implies a critique of conventional masculinity, and which is the secret of his/her sexual success with women… No wonder he arouses the rage of other men…