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Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 American biographical film directed by Kimberly Peirce, and co-written by Peirce and Andy Bienen.The film is a dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena (played by Hilary Swank), an American trans man who attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska but falls victim to a brutal hate crime perpetrated by two male acquaintances.
"Boys Don't Cry" (The Cure song), 1979, also covered by Nathan Larson for the 1999 film soundtrack "Boys Don't Cry" (Moulin Rouge song), 1987 "Boys Don't Cry", by MC Chris from Eating's Not Cheating, 2004
Boys Don't Cry grossed over $11 million at the box office in North America. [4] The film was critically acclaimed, particularly for Swank's acting, [5] with reviewer Michael Sragow, calling the film a "critical knockout". [6] Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, surveyed 76 reviews and judged 88% of them to be positive. [7]
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Instead of the line "Boys Don't Cry has received honors for its writing, directing, and acting,....". how about this as a rephrasing "Boys Don't Cry garnered awards and nominations in a variety of categories with particular praise for Swank's performance as Teena, its screenplay and its direction." done; You can't say that a film performed poorly.
Kimberly Ane Peirce [2] (born September 8, 1967) is an American filmmaker, best known for her debut feature film, Boys Don't Cry (1999), which won Hilary Swank her first Academy Award for Best Actress. Peirce's second feature, Stop-Loss, was released by Paramount Pictures in 2008. Her third film Carrie was released on October 18, 2013.
1. “You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes.”
"Boys Don't Cry" is widely regarded as one of the Cure's best songs. In 2019, Billboard ranked the song number four on their list of the 40 greatest Cure songs, [8] and in 2023, Mojo ranked the song number three on their list of the 30 greatest Cure songs.