Boys Don't Cry
1995movie
The original short film that inspired the 1999 version of Boys Don't Cry.
The original short film that inspired the 1999 version of Boys Don't Cry.
Boys Don't Cry opened in theaters Oct. 22, 1999, first on 25 screens before spreading to hundreds. It became a runaway hit that drew rave reviews for its empathetic portrayal of a young person on a quest for love and acceptance — based on the true story of murdered Nebraskan Brandon Teena — at a time when transgender characters were just not represented on screen.
“Boys Don’t Cry” is not sociology, however, but a romantic tragedy–a “Romeo and Juliet” set in a Nebraska trailer park. Brandon is not the smartest person on Earth, especially at judging which kinds of risks to take, but he is one of the nicest, and soon he has fallen in love with a Falls City girl named Lana (Chloe Sevigny).Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Boys Don’t Cry.
