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Boys Don’t Cry

film by Peirce [1999]
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      …the subject of the film Boys Don’t Cry (1999), directed by Kimberly Peirce and starring Hilary Swank in an Academy Award-winning turn as Teena and ChloĆ« Sevigny as Lana Tisdel.

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      …the subject of the film Boys Don’t Cry (1999), directed by Kimberly Peirce and starring Hilary Swank in an Academy Award-winning turn as Teena and ChloĆ« Sevigny as Lana Tisdel.

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