Boys don't cry [videorecording] : / Fox Searchlight Pictures and The Independent Film Channel Productions present a Killer Films/Hart-Sharp Entertainment production ; a Kimberly Peirce film.
MPAA rating: R. Special features: widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) ; English 5.1 surround ; subtitles: English ; theatrical trailer and TV spots ; director's commentary ; featurette. Hilary Swank, Chloe Sevigny, Brendan Sexton, Peter Sarsgaard.
Summary:
To his girlfriends, Brandon was the perfect boyfriend - to his killers, he was the ultimate threat. Hilary Swank's extraordinary portrayal of Teena Brandon won her an Academy Award for best actress. Based on the true story of Teena Brandon, a young woman who lived as a man. Brandon arrived in rural Falls City, Nebraska, in 1993 where he finds some new friends. Three weeks later he is brutally raped and beaten by friends who discover that he is actually a women. A week later the same two men murder Teena along with two other people. This is a tale of Brandon's coming of age struggle with identity and how his gender ambiguity induced feelings of betrayal, confusion and hostility among residents of a town in America's heartland.
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