remembered the rush that followed the arrival of “Boys Don’t Cry,” a film that began as her thesis project at Columbia University. “I think what’s great about a personal movie is that ...

“Boys Don’t Cry” is a dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena, a 21-year-old transgender man who, in 1993, was raped and later murdered near the small Nebraska town of Falls City.

Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry, the fictionalized story of the brutal, real life rape and murder of transgender man Brandon Teena (Hilary Swank) in Humboldt, Nebraska, was one of the most ...

DETROW: Written and directed by Kimberly Peirce, "Boys Don't Cry" told the true story of Brandon ... His legacy lives on through our movie to remind... DETROW: But for many trans viewers like ...

Was the movie a landmark in representation or distressingly exploitative? It was both and so much more. By Trish Bendix When it was released in October 1999, “Boys Don’t Cry” was the first ...

But for the filmmakers behind the 1999 film Boys Don’t Cry, the question of what kind ... Because we couldn't make the movie without that.” For Kimberly Peirce, the process of casting the ...

Hilary Swank has reflected on her role in Boys Don’t Cry two decades ago ... murdered in a hate crime, in the movie which was released in 2000. She told The Times of London newspaper ...

“Boys Don’t Cry” is a dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena, a 21-year-old transgender man who, in 1993, was raped and later murdered near the small Nebraska town of Falls City.