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  • 1999
  • Leo Films
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 1999
  • Leo Films
  • 1 h 45 m

Summary 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).

Directed By: Tamara Hernandez

Written By: Tamara Hernandez

  • 1999
  • Leo Films
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 1999
  • Leo Films
  • 1 h 45 m

Men Cry Bullets

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
32
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Summary 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).

Directed By: Tamara Hernandez

Written By: Tamara Hernandez

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
32
10% Positive
1 Review
30% Mixed
3 Reviews
60% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
32
10% Positive
1 Review
30% Mixed
3 Reviews
60% Negative
6 Reviews

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80
Beautiful story of doomed love.
By Lisa Alspector FULL REVIEW
60
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.
By F. X. Feeney FULL REVIEW
40
The downside is that it all feels like a big in-joke, and you're not in on it.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW
25
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.
By Jack Mathews FULL REVIEW
25
Strains to be shockingly original but winds up as cheap and cheesy as its characters.
By David Sterritt FULL REVIEW
0
Overlong, naggingly pretentious, more absurd than absurdist and a cruel, cruel bore.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
0
The race is on for worst film of the year honors. Among the top contenders: Men Cry Bullets.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Id Films
Release Date Oct 22, 1999
Duration 1 h 45 m
Genres
Tagline No One Is Too Pretty to Die
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Awards

Chicago Underground Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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