Boys Don't Cry

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Awards

Academy Awards 2000 - Nominated - Best Supporting Actress

Academy Awards 2000 - Won - Best Actress

BAFTA Awards 2000 - Nominated - Best Actress

Independent Spirit Awards 2000 - Nominated - Best First Feature

Academy Awards 2000 - Nominated - Best Supporting Actress

Academy Awards 2000 - Won - Best Actress

BAFTA Awards 2000 - Nominated - Best Actress

Independent Spirit Awards 2000 - Nominated - Best First Feature

Independent Spirit Awards 2000 - Nominated - Best First Screenplay

Independent Spirit Awards 2000 - Nominated - Producer's Award

Independent Spirit Awards 2000 - Won - Best Female Lead

Independent Spirit Awards 2000 - Won - Best Supporting Female

LAFCA Awards 1999 - Won - Best Actress

LAFCA Awards 1999 - Won - Best Supporting Actress

National Board of Review Awards 1999 - Won - Best Breakthrough Performance (Female)

National Board of Review Awards 1999 - Won - Outstanding Directorial Debut

NYFCC Awards 1999 - Won - Best Actress

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Boys Don't Cry

Director:
Kimberly Peirce
90 Minutes
 

At A Glance

Film Synopsis

Based on actual events. Brandon Teena is the popular new guy in a tiny Nebraska town. He hangs out with the guys, drinking, cussing, and bumper surfing, and he charms the young women, who've never met a more sensitive and considerate young man. Life is good for Brandon, now that he's one of the guys and dating hometown beauty Lana. However, he's forgotten to mention one important detail. It's not that he's wanted in another town for GTA and other assorted crimes, but that Brandon Teena was actually born a woman named Teena Brandon. When his best friends make this discovery, Brandon's life is ripped apart by betrayal, humiliation, rape, and murder.

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Our Take

"It is no wonder Hilary Swank won an Oscar for this extraordinary performance, not a film for the squeamish but an amazingly powerful story "

Details

Runtime:
90 min.

Genres:
Drama
LGBT

Country:
UNITED STATES

Language:
English/American

Color:
Color

Tagline

• A true story about finding the courage to be yourself.

 

Memorable Quotes

Fred: [talking to the mirror] You made a huge mistake. You wanted to fuck Fred - now Fred will fuck you. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fred: [referring to Grucha] He's got cat food instead of brain! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oskar: [after hearing a doorbell] Can't you just get up and open the door? Laska: I turned down the TV the day before yesterday! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fred: [in the car, after hitting a TV guy dresses as a hedgehog] What was that? Did we hit a dog or something? Grucha: I think it was a porcupine. Fred: What porcupine? Grucha: Like a big hedgehog... Fred: Grucha, are you really that stupid? In this country we don't have animals like that. There's aurochs, beaver, shit elk, fox, wolf, pine marten, horse, otter, shrew, rabbit... those the animals that live in Poland! Grucha: What's the difference what was it if it's dead now? Fred: Ha, you're wrong here! You now what's reincarnation? Have you ever heard a word this looong? Simply, it means that after death a man is rebirth as another creature, as an animal for example. Maybe you've just killed your family, your uncle or something. Grucha: That's just bullshit! My uncle is alive. He works in the television. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fred: Reincarnation amuses you, right. I've been expecting it from you. But it's an old and a wise religion, not for morons like you. Who you're going to be in your next life depends on how did you behave so far. Some, after death, become tigers, falcons or leopards... Grucha: And others? Fred: If you mean yourself I wouldn't expect too much. *A duck* is the best you can do. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Grucha: Why are you eating my French fries? Can't you just get your own? Fred: I'm not hungry. Grucha: If you're not hungry then stop eating my fries! And if you are, buy your own! Fred: Can't you see what this food is doing with your brain? Apart from the burger and French fries you can't see a thing. It's a piece of a fucking potato and you're behaving like I was harming your mother! I'm going to take a piss, 'cause I don't want to look at this! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Laska: I can't cheat life - I'm the son of toilet king. It' a high standard to reach. Kuba: Fucking high... Laska: Bro', if you ain't got a family, you don't suffer hunger and stuff like that, you should just ask yourself a fucking, a really fucking important question, "What do I like to do?" And then start doing it... Kuba: Did you answer the question? Laska: Smoke weed. Kuba: Is there a job that involves this? Laska: Ambassador. Kuba: [laughing] On Jamaica, I think. Laska: Not an ambassador like that. I meant one like Tony Halik. Imagine how much stuff did he smoke with all the tribes he visited. Someone has to continue his work. I will travel the world as an ambassador of our country. I'm Laska. From Poland. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Laska's father: [standing in a bathroom near a toilet] Now my son, like me some years ago, look inside this well of past. What do you see? Laska: [as a young boy] Dung! Laska's father: Yes, this is dung. This is an answer. For thousands of years, all the civilisations, cultures and religions, great wars and revolutions, the best people in the world, are all accompanied by dung. Now you understand? This is life. You can cheat me, you can cheat your friend, you can cheat your mommy, but you can't cheat life! That's why I understood, I understood that I should make toilets! And we will be the kings of life, my son. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oskar: [to himself, before having sex with a prostitute] What would the parents say? Lili: Oh, don't worry. They're convinced I study geography. Oskar: I was talking about my parents.

 

 

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