Boys Don’t Cry is a 1999 American biographical film directed by Kimberly Peirce. It is a dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena, an American trans man. The film co-stars Chloë Sevigny as Teena’s girlfriend, Lana Tisdel. At the 72nd Academy Awards in 2000, Swank was awarded the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2019, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
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Boys Don’t Cry is a 1999 American biographical film directed by Kimberly Peirce. It is a dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena, an American trans man. The film co-stars Chloë Sevigny as Teena’s girlfriend, Lana Tisdel. It premiered at the New York Film Festival on October 8, 1999, before appearing at various other film festivals. At the 72nd Academy Awards in 2000, Swank was awarded the Academy Award for Best Actress. The pair were also nominated at the 57th Golden Globe Awards, with Swank winning the Best Actress – Drama award. In 2019, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” The film’s themes include the nature of romantic and platonic relationships, the causes of violence against LGBT people, especially transgender people, and the relationship among social class, race, and gender. It was initially assigned an NC-17 rating but was later reclassified to an R rating. Some people who had been involved with Brandon in real life criticized the film for not portraying the events accurately. It performed well at the North American box office, gaining three times its production budget by May 2000. It received a limited release in the U.S. on October 22, 1999; it was released on home video in September 2000, and it was nominated for multiple awards including Best Actress at the Golden Globes and Best Actor at the Academy Awards.
It has been listed as one of the best films of the year by many critics, with many ranking it as oneof the best film of the 1990s. The movie was released in the UK on October 25, 1999. It had a limited U.K. release on October 26, 1999 and was released worldwide on October 27, 1999 . It received a limited American release in October 1999, and was nominated for a number of awards, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and Best Director at the BAFTAs. In the film, Teena is a young trans man whose birth name was Teena Renae Brandon. He moves to Falls City, Nebraska, where he befriends ex-convicts John Lotter and Tom Nissen. He becomes romantically involved with Lana, who is initially unaware both of his actual anatomy and his troubled past. The two make plans to move to Memphis, where Brandon will manage Lana’s karaoke singing career. Eventually, they kiss during a date night which ends with them having sex. The police detain Brandon on charges that arose prior to his relocation; they place him in the women’s section of the Falls City prison. After this confrontation, Tom and John drag Brandon into John’s car and drive to an isolated location where they brutally beat and gang rape him. They try to make Lana look, but she shields her eyes and turns away. However, while Brandon is in prison, she declares her love for Brandon.
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