October 25, 2025
MILLION DOLLAR BABY (2004) – AFI Movie Club
Brought to the screen by two recipients of the AFI Life Achievement Award – Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman – MILLION DOLLAR BABY (2004) was honored in the year of its release with an AFI AWARD, recognizing it among the most outstanding motion pictures of year. According to the official rationale, “MILLION DOLLAR BABY is...
December 8, 2022
BOYS DON’T CRY (1999) – AFI Movie Club
BOYS DON’T CRY (1999) stars Academy Award® winner Hilary Swank in a story based on the life of Brandon Teena, a transgender man from Nebraska who was murdered in 1993. Making her feature directorial debut with the film four years after making a short about the same subject, Kimberly Peirce was the keynote speaker for...
June 15, 2020
AFI Movie Club: BOYS DON’T CRY
BOYS DON’T CRY stars Academy Award® winner Hilary Swank in a story based on the life of Brandon Teena, a transgender man from Nebraska who was murdered in 1993. In this exclusive AFI Archive video, watch BOYS DON’T CRY director Kimberly Peirce speak to the AFI DWW 2014 class: Movie Trivia about BOYS DON’T…
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