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Boys Don't Cry

Boys Don't Cry

7,4 /10 (1,491 Votes)
1999 EN 118 min

Overview

A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.

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Release date

02/09/1999

Votes

1,491

Popularity

4.2

A true story about finding the courage to be yourself.

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Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

118 min

Budget

$2,000,000

Revenue

$11,540,607

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John Chard

John Chard

2016-02-22

⭐ 8

You don't seem like you're from around here. It's one of those films that any film lover has to see to judge for themselves. A critical darling and an award winner, it's a film of undoubted emotional power. It is based on the tragic case of Teena Brandon (Hilary Swank) who was raped and murdered in 1993, it would become one of the significant cases of hate crime in American history. From the off Kimberly Peirce's film sets out its stall that we are in bleak territory, and so it proves. It dangles little shards of light, but constantly it proves uncompromising and unpleasant. There's a na…

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Asa_movies

2017-04-03

⭐ 8

The atmosphere completely different from that nowadays. This was probably the first time for man to express his own feelings and sexual identity in public. So, it was something like a Big Bang for people who experienced fact that some of their kith are "such a weirdos". If you compare understanding of people today and only about 2 decades ago you can see that struggle for freedom and equality always exists, but they're a bit different. I may say the sexual revolution has just started and, if you compare some movie from 2000th, 2020th and (probably) 2040th, you will see people are starting to …

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T.J paco Lopez

T.J paco Lopez

2026-06-19

Watching a "Mentally ill Female" Live her Life like this was Just Completely Disgusting to Me... i Literally Felt Sick!, like if you Gonna be Gay then be Gay, but you was NOT Born a MAN! So therefore i Have Absolutely NO Sympathy for What Happened to Her, She Brung that on Her By (Playing Games) with Straight Men and Women, She Deceived People and She Suffered the Consequences for Living a Lie and Pretending to Be Something that she's NOT

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