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Mood:
- BleakEmotionalTouchingDisturbingSincereCaptivatingThought Provoking
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Plot:
- Hidden IdentityTranssexualBetrayalTragic LoveGender BendingGenderLove and RomanceMind and Soul more...
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Genres:
- DramaIndependentMelodrama
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century90s
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Place:
- NebraskaUSASmall Town
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- Award WinnerCritically AcclaimedEssentialOscar WinnerPrestigious Awards
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- Voice OverStrong Female Role
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- BiographyBased on True Story
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- SeriousRealistic
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- Drugs/AlcoholProfanitySexual ContentStrong Violent Content
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Boys Don't Cry, 1999
English
USA
Profile of Boys Don't Cry
The mood of Boys Don't Cry is bleak, emotional, and touching. The plot centers around being transsexual, tragic love, and hidden identities. It is a drama and independent movie. Stylistically, Boys Don't Cry stars a strong female character, includes a voice over, and is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in a small town. Boys Don't Cry is set in Nebraska. It happens in the 1990s. It is drawn from a biography and originally a true story. Boys Don't Cry is known for being an Oscar winner, essential viewing, and critically acclaimed. Note that it includes strong violent content, drugs/alcohol, and sexual content.
Summary of Boys Don't Cry
Kimberly Peirce's directorial debut tells the gut-wrenching true story of Teena Brandon, a Midwestern female who disguised herself as a man. Relocating to Falls City, Nebraska, from Lincoln, she managed to convince her newfound group of friends that she was Brandon Teena. The film treats these events with a painful objectivism, as Brandon's relationships with her friends John, Tom, Kate, Candace, and Lana unfold toward their inevitably horrific conclusion. A shining example of independent filmmaking at its most impassioned.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 29 October 1999 |
| Runtime: | 118 min |
| Awards: | Academy Awards |
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Variety
The poignant and candid Boys Don't Cry can be seen as a "Rebel Without a Cause" for these culturally diverse and complex times, with the two misfit girls enacting a version of the James Dean/Natalie Wood romance with utmost conviction.
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- by: Emanuel Levy
The New York Times
Stunning...a film much tougher and more transfixing than its wan title.
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- by: Elvis Mitchell
Users Reviews
a true spine-tingling story, rough and touching, you just can't stay indifferent. Hilary Swank's acting is simply perfect. not an easy watch but the drama it provides worth every second. I'll probably cry again and again every time I'll watch it.
- 08.November.2008
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- by: Noa
- Noa rated this movie
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A very bleak and powerful movie. The story of a young woman who explores her identity and introduces herself as a man in front of a group of young people. She feels more comfortable as boy but the situation becomes complicated when one of the girls...
- 22.September.2008
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- by: amit.alter
- amit.alter rated this movie0/10
