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Boys Don't Cry

1999

Kimberly Peirce

Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, Brendan Sexton III ...

7.2

15,079

Drama. Romance From the middle of America emerged an extraordinary double life, a complicated love story and a crime that would shatter the heartland. In Falls City, Nebraska, Brandon Teena (Hilary Swank) was a newcomer with a future who had the small rural community enchanted. Women adored him and almost everyone who met this charismatic stranger was drawn to his charming innocence. But, Falls City’s hottest date and truest friend had one secret: he ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"The Best American Film of the Year"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"A shockingly intimate and deeply affecting film (...) Peirce moves from delicacy to devastation with uncanny skill, and Swank and Sevigny give performances that burn in the memory."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"One of the many virtues of 'Boys Don't Cry,' one of the best films of the year, is that never once does it supply the tiresome phrase, 'I am a man trapped in a woman's body' (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"[Peirce] is good, and unpatronising on the empty, desperate milieu, and the performance she gets from Hilary Swank deserved its Oscar."	POS
United States	Emanuel Levy Variety	"This devastatingly powerful tale of a young girl who disguised herself as a boy is anchored by two fully realized performances (...) [An] audacious, accomplished pic"	POS
United States	Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"It is driven by performances of such luminous humanity that they break your heart (...) There's something about it that has the inevitability of Greek drama."	POS

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