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Men Cry Bullets
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MPAA RATING: Not rated

Starring Steven Nelson, Honey Lauren, Jeri Lynn Ryan, and Harry Ralston

Gloria (Lauren), a novelist who enjoys rough sex, picks up an aspiring female-impersonator Billy (Nelson) and rapes him after which he falls for her. Gloria loses her rough edge when she comes to believe that Billy is attracted to her more attractive cousin (Ryan).

GENRE(S):	Drama
WRITTEN BY:	Tamara Hernandez
DIRECTED BY:	Tamara Hernandez
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: March 5, 2001 Video: December 26, 2000 Theatrical: October 22, 1999
RUNNING TIME:	105 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

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Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

Beautiful story of doomed love.

LA Weekly F. X. Feeney

Writer-director Hernandez is comfortable with violent, perverse emotions, and can find humor in them -- a refreshing quality that keeps one watching long after her movie has jumped its own tracks and zoomed to a private world of obscurely motivated quarrels and uninvolving reconciliations.

Village Voice Nico Baumbach

This amateurish no-budget effort has earnest charm, and a sensitivity to the tragic dimension of amour fou that saves it from lapsing into shtick.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

The downside is that it all feels like a big in-joke, and you're not in on it.

The New York Times Anita Gates

A muddled film with John Waters aspirations.

New York Post Jonathan Foreman

A lobotomized attempt to make a no-budget John Waters movie, Men Cry Bullets is a painful reminder of just how bad indie cinema can be - especially when it plays with gender roles. It's desperately unfunny and dreadfully acted, written and directed.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

Strains to be shockingly original but winds up as cheap and cheesy as its characters.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

The acting is more amateurish than Billy's diva act, and for all its ambitious editing, the film looks like something made in the Addams Family's attic.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

The race is on for worst film of the year honors. Among the top contenders: Men Cry Bullets.

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

Overlong, naggingly pretentious, more absurd than absurdist and a cruel, cruel bore.

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Men Cry Bullets Phaedra Cinema

Men Cry Bullets
Phaedra Cinema