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Lana M. Tisdel (born May 28, 1975) is an American woman whose early life and involvement with the December 1993 murders of Brandon Teena, Lisa Lambert, and Phillip DeVine at the hands of John Lotter and Tom Nissen is chronicled in the 1998 documentary The Brandon Teena Story and the 1999 film Boys Don't Cry (which left out DeVine).
Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 American biographical film directed by Kimberly Peirce, and co-written by Peirce and Andy Bienen.The film is a dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena (played by Hilary Swank), an American trans man who attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska but falls victim to a brutal hate crime perpetrated by two male acquaintances.
Brandon Teena [note 1] (December 12, 1972 – December 31, 1993) was an American transgender man who was raped and later, along with Phillip DeVine and Lisa Lambert, murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska, by John Lotter and Tom Nissen. [2] [3] His life and death were the subject of the films The Brandon Teena Story and Boys Don't Cry .
Boys Don’t Cry: Hilary Swank and Chloë Sevigny as Brandon Teena and Lana Tisdel (Getty) Swank has said words to this effect in several interviews over the years, always in a manner that ...
The Bluest Eyes in Texas. " The Bluest Eyes in Texas " (originally released as " Bluest Eyes in Texas ") is a song written by Tim DuBois, Dave Robbins and Van Stephenson, and recorded by American country music group Restless Heart. It was released in May 1988 as the lead single from Restless Heart's album Big Dreams in a Small Town .
She went on to appear in several independent features, including two directed by her then-boyfriend, Harmony Korine (writer of Kids): Gummo (1997) and Julien Donkey-Boy (1998), before obtaining a lead role as Lana Tisdel in Boys Don't Cry (1999), a fact-based drama about the murder of trans man Brandon Teena.
This peer review discussion has been closed. I've listed this article for peer review because of the relevance of the film itself as well as the life of Brandon Teena.I have spent about a month or more editing the article, expanding it in all areas neccessary, transforming it from what it was previously (full of repetitive inacurate, un-sourced and poorly writen information) and adding further ...
Boston Society of Film Critics. First awarded. Mary Steenburgen. Melvin and Howard (1980) Currently held by. Da'Vine Joy Randolph. The Holdovers (2023) Website. bostonfilmcritics .org.