Big Girls Don't Cry (Subtitled) (Wide Screen) (DVD)

Big Girls Don't Cry, They Get On With Things!

Advantages: Great story, great writing, lots to learn
Disadvantages: Not as widely known as it should be

Big Girls Don?t Cry is a novel by American author Connie Briscoe, first published in 1996. It was one of her earlier novels, the second I believe, and she has written several since. She is not an author we hear much about on this side of the Atlantic, and despite having discovered Big Girls Don?t Cry in the late 1990s, I?ve never sought out any of her other novels. Big Girls Don?t Cry is the story of Naomi Jefferson, a black American born in the 1950s, to a middle class family. The novel opens in 1963, when Naomi begins to discover the ugliness of racism, and takes us through to the present day (1990s). In the sixties she discovers boys, friendship and racism, and suffers tragedy; in the seventies she goes to college and becomes disillusioned with life and politics; and in the eighties she decides a career is what she needs, but its ...

eilidhcatriona 24.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Big Girls Don't Cry - Connie Briscoe

Boys don't cry, & girls fall asleep while watching

Advantages: Based on a real story, excellent performance [Hillary Swank]
Disadvantages: Extremely dull and not engaging

you for reading! <<< Price and DVD Info >>> Price: £4.98 from Amazon. Actors: Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, Brendan Sexton III, Alicia Goranson Director: Kimberly Peirce Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen Language English Subtitles: Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Number of discs: 1 Classification: 18 Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment DVD Release Date: 4 Mar 2002 Run Time: 118 minutes ASIN: B00005UWNB Summary: I respect and believe in what it stands for but I don't like it. ...

sottovoce82 10.02.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Boys Don't Cry (DVD)

Boys Don't Cry Film Review

Advantages: Characters
Disadvantages: Depressing

Hilary Swank plays Teena Brandon, a 21-year-old from Lincoln, Nebraska, who lives under the alias Brandon Teena, believing that she is a man trapped in a woman's body. In a bid to feel accepted by her group of friends, she cuts her hair short, flattens her chest with tension bandages and puts socks down the front of her pants to look more masculine. She hopes one day to fall and love with a woman, declare her secret, and be understood. Boys Don't Cry is a bleak and emotional tale concerned with the subject of sexual identity. Brandon is a character that feels the need to dress like a man to match the inner self. To "him", he is not living a lie, despite having to disguise his physical appearance with various attire; it's society, on the whole, that has the problem accepting he is different from the norm. The gender distinctions are ...

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