6. Boys Don't Cry . Starkly beautiful, Kimberly Peirce's debut film has at its core a tragicomic  That the cross-dressing Brandon Teena, a k a Teena Brandon (the rapturous Hillary Swank) feels most at home among the sort of roughnecks who would kill her if they knew her true gender. <SEP> Boys Don't Cry is Kimberly Peirce's debut film.
6. Boys Do n't Cry. Starkly beautiful, Kimberly Peirce's debut film has at its core a tragicomic That the cross-dressing Brandon Teena, a k a Teena Brandon (the rapturous Hillary Swank) feels most at home among the sort of roughnecks who would kill her if they knew her true gender. <SEP> Boys Do n't Cry is Kimberly Peirce's debut film.