Factory sealed DVD</br></br>Product Description</br></br>The true story of a girl who was killed for impersonating a boy in high school.</br></br>Amazon.com</br></br>When Brandon Teena a young man with an infectious aw-shucks grin and an angelic face that's all angles wanders into Falls City Nebraska he takes to the town like it's a second skin. In little time he's fallen in with a gang of goofy if temperamental redneck boys found himself a girlfriend and befriended enough people to form something of a small family. In fact it's the best time Brandon's ever had. However there are shadows looming over Brandon's life: a court date for grand theft auto a checkered criminal record and a seemingly innocuous speeding ticket that could prove to be his undoing. Why? Because as it turns out Brandon Teena is actually Teena Brandon a woman masquerading as a man. <p> This fascinating story was based on real-life events (as documented in <I>The Brandon Teena Story</I>) that occurred in 1993 and ended in tragedy: Brandon's rape and murder by two of his supposed friends. Despite this horrible outcome however in the hands of director Kimberly Peirce (who cowrote the unfettered screenplay with Andy Bienen)?? Brandon's story becomes not oppressive or preachy?? but rather oddly and touchingly transcendent?? anchored by Hilary Swank's phenomenal?? u