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[[File:BrandonTeena_5386.jpg|frame|Brandon Teena, just a regular guy. Played by [[Hilary Swank]].]]
▲The story of the life and death of a young [[Useful Notes/Transsexual|transman]] named Brandon Teena. His legal name was Teena Brandon, but that was unknown to the gang of misogynist homophobic rednecks he joined.
They accepted him as one of the guys, and he even started dating the sister of one of these new friends. Of course, when they "discovered" that he was assigned female, they considered him to be a lesbian. Homophobic hate-crimes ensued.
''Boys Don't Cry'' was named to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2019.
Not to be confused with [[Men Don't Cry]] or the boy band from a ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episode.
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* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: Rare example of a female to male, but in ''Boys Don't Cry'' about the real life murder of Brandon Teena, who was a trans man, Hillary Swank not only looked convincingly male (she lived as a man for about a month in preparation for the role; her neighbors believed the young man coming and going was her brother), but was not bad-looking.
* [[Blatant Lies]]: Brandon makes up a ton of lies
* [[Blonde, Brunette, Redhead]]: Blonde Candace, brunette Kate and reddish-blonde Lana.
* [[Bottle Fairy]]: Lana and her mother. ▼
* [[Brainless Beauty]]: Brandon. "I'm going to Memphis, Graceland and Tennessee."
* [[Broken Aesop]]: The movie's tagline talks about "having the courage to be yourself" when the film's protagonist is a compulsive liar<ref>about all kinds of little things, but NOT his gender - he is male, although not physically</ref>, and when he does "be himself", {{spoiler|he ends up getting raped and murdered}}.
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* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Lana's father is nowhere to be found and neither is the father of Candace's baby.
* [[Downer Ending]]
* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: The movie is based on the last days of a famous murder victim, so the climax of the film is {{spoiler|a very carefully choreographed [[Mexican Standoff]]}}, [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] when the inevitable happens.
* [[Heteronormative Crusader]]: Brandon's friends take this path when they find out his biological sex.
* [[Meaningful Echo]]: When Brandon walks Lana home and she's
* [[Missing Mom]]: The mother of John's daughter April is out of the picture.
* {{spoiler|[[Rape as Drama]]}}
* [[Shower of Angst]]: Brandon takes a shower after {{spoiler|he has been raped by men who discovered his birth sex}}, with the camera lingering on shots of his female body.
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* [[Triumphant Reprise]]: The girls sing the song "The Bluest Eyes In Texas" by Restless Heart in the bar where Brandon first meets Lana. At the end of the film when Lana is finally leaving Falls City the cover by Nina Persson plays over it.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Kate disappears after Brandon {{spoiler|is exposed in front of everyone}} and we never hear what happened to her. Also, Candace's baby is last seen walking back into the bedroom after {{spoiler|she's been shot}}, and it's not said what happened to him. Ditto for John's daughter April.
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