Parents Guide for
Boys Don't Cry (1999) More at IMDbPro »

Many instances of sexual innuendo and several kisses, some passionate. There are several instances of a female-to-male transsexual having sex with a female: In an extended scene, a girl kisses another girl passionately, undresses her, caresses her bare breasts and performs cunnilingus (we only hear the girl's moans and see her facial expressions); we then see her thrusting on top of the other girl -- presumably using a plastic phallus we see earlier in the movie. In two other scenes, we see the two girls kissing and one removing the other's shirt; it's implied that they are about to have sexual contact or have just finished (in one scene, we see part of one girl's breast and in the other we see a girl's bare back before she puts on her coat). We see a shirtless man, a girl in her panties wrapping a cloth bandage around her breasts to flatten them and another girl in her bra and panties; also, we see a girl's bare backside as she's showering, a girl's genitals after two men pull off her underwear and a man's bare buttocks after he finishes raping a girl (see VIOLENCE/GORE below).

Two people are shot and killed (we see blood splatter on the wall behind one of them) and one is also stabbed after being shot. We see a corpse lying in a pool of blood and another with a blackened, swollen eye. Two extended, graphic and extremely disturbing scenes of two men abusing a woman: in one scene, they punch, kick and hold her against a wall before pulling off her pants and underwear; in a later scene, they tackle and punch her repeatedly, rip off her pants and shirt, then rape her (we see one thrusting on top of her in the backseat of a car, then one bending her over the back of a car and thrusting). Afterwards, she has many bloody cuts and bruises on her face and back; in a later scene, we see her crying and punching herself in the head. Several pushes, punches and scuffles. A group of boys chase someone inside a house, then bang their fists on the walls and throw something through a window. A man purposely puts his hand in a campfire, shows scars on his chest and leg from self-mutilation wounds and runs a knife blade along his bare chest (he doesn't cut himself). We see someone fall off the back of a moving truck several times while playing a game. A man pulls people out of a car and drives off without them. Reckless driving. A man yells at a young girl after she apparently urinates in her pants while sitting on his lap.

At least 90 F-words, some profane finger gestures, many anatomical and scatological references, several mild obscenities, a couple of insults and many instances of name-calling.

Both drinking and smoking are present.

The whole movie may result intense or deeply disturbing. Children should not see it.