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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
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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]
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.
"Boys Don't Cry" is a song by English rock band The Cure. It was released in the UK as a stand-alone single in June 1979, and was included as the title track on Boys Don't Cry , the American equivalent to Three Imaginary Boys .
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.”
Laurie Weeks is an American writer and performer based in New York City. Her fiction and essays have been published extensively. She is best known as the screenwriter of Boys Don't Cry, and is the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of the novel Zipper Mouth.