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boys dont cry.....a romantic tragedy
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"In telling the true story of Brandon Teena, who was murdered in 1993 for trying to pass herself off as a boy in rural Nebraska, Boys Don't Cry director Kimberly Peirce says she tried to look past the brutality and the sensationalism for the "deeper emotional truth of the story. I wanted to bring Brandon to life — I didn't just want to tell the story of his death."
When she first heard about the murder, Peirce was a film grad student who had made only a short film. But she felt "an immediate kinship" with the young man who had been born Teena Brandon. Exposed as a girl, he was raped and murdered by two ex-cons whom he'd considered friends.
Before his death, Brandon fell in love with Lana Tisdel, who didn't know or didn't care that he
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