Follow Teena Brandon as she becomes Brandon Teena and claims a new male identity in the rural town of Falls City, Nebraska. There, Brandon successfully pulls off portraying a man unbeknownst to the women he's dating, eventually falling in love with Lana. He also befriends Lana's friends John and Tom. At First, Brandon's new friends like him and treat him as a buddy. But when Brandon's sexual identity is revealed, the deception triggers a spiral of horrific violence that ends in homicide.
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- Boys Don't Cry
- 18 (for violence including an intense brutal rape scene, sexuality, language and drug use)
- Cast
- Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, Brendan Sexton, Alison Folland, Alicia Goranson, Matt McGrath, Rob Campbell, Jeannetta Arnette, Cheyenne Rushing
- Director
- Kimberly Peirce
- Producer
- Pamela Koffler, Jonathan Sehring, Caroline Kaplan, John Sloss, Jeff Sharp
- Writer
- Laurie Weeks, Kimberly Peirce, Andy Bienen
- Duration
- 01:54:00
- Release
- Friday April 7 2000
- Genre
- Drama
- Distributor
- 20th Century Fox
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