Boys Don't Cry

(1999) dir Kimberley Peirce w/Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, Brendan Sexton III, Alicia Goranson, Alison Folland [118 min; 35mm]
Groundbreaking almost doesn’t begin to describe the impact of this film that won Hilary Swank her Best Actress Oscar, BOYS DON’T CRY tells the gutwrenching true story of Brandon Teena, a transgender man who, despite relocating to a new town, has his biological identity exposed and faces a tragic fate.