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Released
1999 · FILM

Boys Don't Cry

A transgender young man in rural Nebraska fights for love and acceptance while confronting the deadly hatred of his small-town community.

“A true story about finding the courage to be yourself.”

Directed by
Kimberly Peirce, Alfie Kiernan
Written by
Kimberly Peirce, Andy Bienen
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
118 min
BiographyCrimeDrama

Synopsis

A young transgender man navigates his gender identity and seeks love in rural Nebraska.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 307+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Tracy GrangerShot by Jim DenaultScored by Nathan LarsonDesigned by Michael ShawSound by Robert FernandezStunts by Ben Loggins

Box Office

1999 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.8× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$11.5M

Budget$2.0M
Worldwide gross$11.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $74K — 1% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $116K — 1% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2 theaters

Also known as

  • Boys Don’t Cryde
  • Los chicos no lloranes

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