Her performance still lives in my memory, and it has been some time since I first saw Boys Don't Cry. Chloe Sevigny, who plays the girl Brandon falls in love with, deserved to win an Academy Award. Of course, it's all going to go horribly wrong - particularly when she falls in love with the local girlie sweetheart (Chloe Sevigny). A fugitive of the law, as well as a few irate townsfolk, a twist of fate leads to her befriending a bunch of trailer-trash misfits and, temporarily, enjoying a new-found freedom under her manly guise. A sex-changing (getting her hair cut and sticking a dildo down her pants) credit sequence sees our hero(ine) at first on the pull, duping a local girl into a bit of nookie, and then on the run, when the truth about her sexuality rears its bizarre head. The film takes for its source material the true story of Brandon Teena (Hilary Swank), a girl who, well, just wants to be a boy. Easily one of the best films of the past year, Boys Don't Cry is a moving experience that deserved all the credit it got, and then some. Boys Don't Cry was a major success with the critics and the Academy Award's, so I looked forward to seeing it.
