Information
- BFI identifier512794
- Date1999 (Copyright)
- Production countryUSA
- Production company
- SynopsisBased on a true story of the life and tragic death of transgender Brandon Teena. Hoping to start a new life where he is unknown, Brandon moves to Falls City, Nebraska where he makes new friends with ex-convicts John and Tom and their friends Candace and Lana. Brandon falls in love with Lana, but eventually they find out that he was biologically a woman and all but Lana turn on him viciously with tragic consequences. (Synopsis)
- Genre
- CreditsDirector: Kimberly Peirce
©/Copyright: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Production Company: Fox Searchlight Pictures
view all - CastHilary Swank (Brandon Teena)
Chloë Sevigny (Lana Tisdal)
Peter Sarsgaard (John Lotter)
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Title
Boys Don't Cry (Original)
Take It Like a Man (Working)
Category
Fiction- Collections
- Posters / DesignsPoster: film - Single sheet landscape poster - PD-10925
Poster: film - Single sheet landscape poster - PD-11045
view all - StillsPhotograph: transparency - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00n-012
Photograph: transparency - Portrait - Colour - bfi-00m-y68
Photograph: transparency - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00m-y67
Photograph: transparency - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00m-w2p
Photograph: transparency - SPD-205556
view all - ArticlesScreen v42 n1 Spring 2001 - ArticleSight and Sound v10 n11 November 2000 - Video ReviewInterview April 2000 - InterviewEmpire n131 May 2000 - InterviewEntertainment Weekly n509 29 Oct 1999 - Articleview all
- Books
- Boys Don't Cry
Work - 512794 - 1999 (Copyright)
USA - Film - Fiction
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