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An actress named Hilary Swank gives one of the most rapturous performances I've ever seen as the cross-dressing Brandon Teena (a k a Teena Brandon) in Kimberly Peirce's stark and astonishingly beautiful debut feature, Boys Don't Cry . The movie opens with Teena being shorn of her hated female tresses and becoming "Brandon," who swaggers around in tight jeans and leather jackets.
Outstanding reviews for this independent film based on the life of Teena Brandon, a Midwestern girl who passed as a boy and was raped and murdered when her secret got out.
The joy is in watching the actor transform, and I don't just mean Swank: I mean Teena Brandon playing Brandon Teena--the role she has been longing for her whole life.
In the film--as in life--Brandon (who never used the last name Teena; he was called "Brandon Teena" only posthumously) had already been wooing young women as a man in his hometown of Lincoln before arriving in Falls City (population 5,000) in late 1993.
{ {Boys 1#36194}} Boys Don't Cry --a just-released dramatic film about a woman who was raped and murdered in a small Nebraska town for pretending to be a man--hews fairly closely to what really happened to 21-year-old Brandon Teena (nee Teena Brandon).