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{{Short description|1992 film by Neil Jordan}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = The Crying Game
| image          = Crying game poster.jpg

| alt            = 
| caption        = UK quad poster
| director       = [[Neil Jordan]]
| producer       = {{Plainlist |
* [[Stephen Woolley]] 
* [[Nik Powell]]
}}
| writer         = Neil Jordan
| starring       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Stephen Rea]]
* [[Miranda Richardson]]
* [[Jaye Davidson]]
* [[Forest Whitaker]]
}}
| music          = [[Anne Dudley]]
| cinematography = [[Ian Wilson (cinematographer)|Ian Wilson]]
| editing        = [[Kant Pan]]
| studio         = {{ubl|[[Palace Pictures]]|[[Film4 Productions|Channel Four Films]]|British Screen|Nippon Film Development}}
| distributor    = Palace Pictures
| released       = {{Film date|df=y|1992|09|02|[[Venice Film Festival|Venice]]|1992|10|30|U.K.|1993|06|19|Japan}}
| runtime        = 111 minutes<!--Theatrical runtime: 111:35--><ref>{{cite web |title=''The Crying Game'' (18) |url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/crying-game-1970-4 |publisher=[[British Board of Film Classification]] |date=28 August 1992 |access-date=2 September 2013 |archive-date=20 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150220223758/http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/crying-game-1970-4 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| country        = {{ubl|United Kingdom|Japan<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7b5a8ba7 |title=The Crying Game |website=BFI |access-date=2 March 2021 |archive-date=2 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210302092833/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7b5a8ba7 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
| language       = English
| budget         = [[Pound sterling|£]]2.3 million
| gross          = $71 million<ref name=returns>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Screen International]]|date=14 January 1994|page=4|title=Very happy returns}}</ref>
}}
'''''The Crying Game''''' is a 1992 [[crime thriller film]],  written and directed by [[Neil Jordan]], produced by [[Stephen Woolley]] and [[Nik Powell]], and starring [[Stephen Rea]], [[Miranda Richardson]], [[Jaye Davidson]], [[Adrian Dunbar]], [[Ralph Brown]], and [[Forest Whitaker]]. The film explores themes of race, sex, gender, nationality, and sexuality against the backdrop of [[the Troubles]] in Northern Ireland.

The film follows Fergus (Rea), a member of the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]]. Fergus develops a brief but meaningful connection with a black British soldier, Jody (Whitaker), who is being held prisoner by the group. Aware that he may be killed, Jody asks Fergus to find Jody's girlfriend, Dil (Davidson), and to check on her well-being in the event of his demise. After Jody's death, Fergus finds Dil, and the two develop an unexpected romantic relationship. Later, Fergus's IRA comrades threaten to harm Dil in an attempt to coerce Fergus into assassinating a judge. Fergus is prepared to commit the crime, but Dil restrains him to prevent him from doing so. Another IRA member, Jude (Richardson), enters Dil's apartment to retaliate, but Dil shoots her dead. Fergus takes the fall for the death of Jude and is imprisoned.

A critical and commercial success, ''The Crying Game'' won the [[BAFTA Award for Best British Film]] as well as the [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay]], alongside [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] nominations for [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]], [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] for Rea, [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]] for Davidson, and [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]]. In 1999, the [[British Film Institute]] named it the [[BFI Top 100 British films|26th-greatest British film of all time]]. The film is notable for a plot twist in which the transgender{{efn|name=jordanjay}} identity of the character Dil is revealed through a nude scene.

==Plot==

At a rural fairground in [[Northern Ireland]], a [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] (IRA) unit kidnaps Jody, a Black British soldier whom a female member of the unit, Jude, had lured to the secluded area by [[Honey trapping|promising sex]]. The unit intends on holding Jody in exchange for the release of an imprisoned IRA member; if the prisoner is not released within three days, they plan on summarily executing Jody. Fergus, a [[Volunteer (Irish republican)|volunteer]] in the unit, is assigned to stand guard over Jody, and the two began to bond, with Jody relating the fable of [[the Scorpion and the Frog]] to Fergus. Aware that he may not survive, Jody asks Fergus to find his girlfriend Dil and check on her well-being. When the captors' deadline passes without their demands being met, Fergus is ordered to take Jody into the woods to kill him. However, instead of shooting him, Fergus chases Jody when he attempts to escape. As Jody flees, he runs into a road and is struck and killed by an incoming [[Alvis Saracen]].

The [[British Army]] attacks the IRA unit, and Fergus manages to escape, believing his companions to have died in the attack. He flees to London, assuming the alias "Jimmy" and finding work as a day labourer. A few months later, Fergus finds Dil at a hair salon, where Jody had told him that she worked as a stylist. He follows her to a bar, and they flirt using the barman, Col, as an intermediary. They develop a relationship, and Fergus gradually falls in love with her. As Fergus and Dil are about to become intimate, she undresses, and Fergus sees Dil's male genitalia. Fergus, initially repulsed, accidentally hits Dil in the face and leaves her apartment. After some reflection, he apologizes to Dil in a note, and they reconcile. Around the same time, Jude reappears and coerces Fergus into helping with an assassination plot against a British judge, using the threat of harm to Dil to ensure his cooperation. To protect Dil, Fergus disguises her in Jody's old [[cricket]] uniform. The night before the planned assassination, Fergus stays at Dil’s apartment and confesses his role in Jody's death. An intoxicated Dil does not appear to fully comprehend his words.

In the morning, Dil restrains Fergus with stockings, preventing him from participating in the assassination. The IRA unit's leader manages to shoot the judge, but is shot and killed by the judge's bodyguards. Jude, seeking revenge, enters Dil's flat with a gun. Dil manages to overpower Jude and shoots her dead after learning of her involvement in Jody's death. Dil then points the gun at Fergus, but spares him, stating that Jody would not want him killed. Dil becomes suicidal. Fergus, now freed from his restraints, prevents Dil from killing herself and allows her to escape. He wipes Dil's fingerprints from the gun and takes the blame for Jude's murder. Months later, Dil visits Fergus in prison and asks why he took the fall for her. He responds, "As a man once said, it's in my nature," and begins to recount the story of the Scorpion and the Frog.

== Cast ==
{{castlist|
* [[Stephen Rea]] as Fergus
* [[Miranda Richardson]] as Jude
* [[Forest Whitaker]] as Jody
* [[Jaye Davidson]] as Dil
* [[Adrian Dunbar]] as Peter Maguire
* [[Tony Slattery]] as Deveroux
* [[Jim Broadbent]] as Col
* [[Birdy Sweeney]] as Tommy
* [[Ralph Brown]] as Dave
* [[Andrée Bernard]] as Jane
* Joe Savino as Eddie
* Breffni McKenna as Tinker
* Jack Carr as Franknum
}}

== Production ==
[[Neil Jordan]] first drafted the screenplay in the mid-1980s under the title ''The Soldier's Wife'', but shelved the project after a similar film was released. 
A 1931 short story by [[Frank O'Connor]] called ''[[Guests of the Nation]]'', in which IRA soldiers develop a bond with their English captives, whom they are ultimately forced to kill,<ref name="conversation">{{cite video |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD2lhfB53Bs  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/HD2lhfB53Bs| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=In conversation with The Crying Game cast |author=British Film Institute |author-link=British Film Institute |publisher=YouTube |date=2017-02-21 |access-date=2018-05-23}}{{cbignore}}</ref> partly inspired the story.

Jordan sought to begin production of the film in the early 1990s, but found it difficult to secure financing,<ref name="conversation" /> as the script's controversial themes and his recent string of box office flops discouraged potential investors. Several funding offers from the United States fell through because the funders wanted Jordan to cast a woman to play the role of Dil, believing that it would be impossible to find an androgynous male actor who could pass as female.<ref name="Watkins2017">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/21/how-we-made-the-crying-game-neil-jordan-stephen-rea-miranda-richardson |title=How we made The Crying Game |author=Jack Watkins |newspaper=The Guardian |date=2017-02-21 |access-date=2018-05-23 |archive-date=12 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612184958/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/21/how-we-made-the-crying-game-neil-jordan-stephen-rea-miranda-richardson |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Derek Jarman]] eventually referred Jordan to Jaye Davidson,<ref name="Watkins2017" /> who was completely new to acting and was spotted by a casting agent while attending a premiere party for Jarman's film ''[[Edward II (film)|Edward II]]''.<ref name="conversation" /> Rea later said, "'If Jaye hadn't been a completely convincing woman, my character would have looked stupid'".<ref name="auto5">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/jaye-davidson-oscars-big-surprise-172819/ |title=Jaye Davidson: Oscar's Big Surprise |first1=Jeff |last1=Giles |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=1 April 1993 |access-date=21 June 2019 |archive-date=7 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607103911/https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/jaye-davidson-oscars-big-surprise-172819/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 

The film went into production with an inadequate patchwork of funding, leading to a stressful and unstable filming process. The producers constantly searched for small amounts of money to keep the production going, and the unreliable pay left crew members disgruntled. Costume designer [[Sandy Powell (costume designer)|Sandy Powell]] had an extremely small budget to work with and ended up having to lend Davidson some of her own clothes to wear in the film, as the two happened to be the same size.<ref name="conversation" />

The film was known as ''The Soldier's Wife'' for much of its production, but [[Stanley Kubrick]], a friend of Jordan, counselled against the title, which he said would lead audiences to expect a [[war film]]. The opening sequence was shot in [[Laytown]], [[County Meath]], Ireland, and the rest in London and [[Burnham Beeches]], Buckinghamshire, England.<ref>{{cite episode |title=The Film Programme |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tq1vt#synopsis |series=The Film Programme |series-link=The Film Programme |credits=Presenter: [[Francine Stock]] |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC Radio 4]] |location=London |airdate=17 September 2010 |access-date=17 September 2010 |archive-date=26 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101026121254/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tq1vt#synopsis |url-status=live }}</ref> The bulk of the film's London scenes were shot in the [[East End]], specifically [[Hoxton]] and [[Spitalfields]].<ref name="Oliver Lunn">{{cite news |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/crying-game-london-locations |title=How London has changed since the Crying Game |last=Lunn |first=Oliver|publisher=British Film Institute |date=2018-01-26 |access-date=2018-05-26 |archive-date=26 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180526190057/http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/crying-game-london-locations |url-status=live }}</ref> Dil's flat is in a building facing onto [[Hoxton Square]], with the exterior of the Metro on nearby Coronet Street. Fergus's flat and Dil's hair salon are both in Spitalfields. Chesham Street in [[Belgravia]] was the location for the assassination of the judge, with the now-defunct Lowndes Arms pub just around the corner.<ref name="Oliver Lunn"/>

''The Crying Game'' includes full-frontal nudity on Davidson's part.<ref name="vulture">{{cite web |url=https://www.vulture.com/2014/12/stephen-rea-on-the-crying-games-sex-surprise.html |title=Stephen Rea on The Crying Game's Surprise Penis |work=Vulture.com |last=Vineyard |first=Jennifer |date=5 December 2014 |access-date=21 June 2019 |archive-date=7 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607102917/https://www.vulture.com/2014/12/stephen-rea-on-the-crying-games-sex-surprise.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

== Release ==
''The Crying Game'' was shown at festivals in Italy, the United States and Canada in September 1992. It was originally released in Ireland and the UK in October 1992, failing at the box office. Director Neil Jordan later attributed this failure to the film's heavily political undertone, and particularly to its sympathetic portrayal of an IRA fighter. The film's depiction of the [[Sussex Arms pub bombing|bombing of a pub]] in London was specifically mentioned as having turned the English press against the film.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104036/?ref_=ttspec_spec_tt |title=The Crying Game |website=[[IMDb]] |date=19 February 1993 |access-date=2 March 2021 |archive-date=17 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241217045054/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104036/?ref_=ttspec_spec_tt |url-status=live }}</ref>{{failed verification|date=February 2024}}

''The Crying Game'' became notable for a plot twist in which a nude scene reveals that the character Dil is transgender.<ref name="vulture" /><ref>Multiple sources:
*{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/the-crying-game-they-wanted-me-to-cast-a-woman-that-was-pretending-to-be-a-man-1.3167472|title='The Crying Game': 'They wanted me to cast a woman that was pretending to be a man'|first=Tara|last=Brady|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=1 August 2017}}
*{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/the-crying-game-trans-characters-oscars-1236104471/|title=Hollywood Flashback: How 'The Crying Game' Hit on a Secret to Success|first=Ryan|last=Gajewski|website=hollywoodreporter.com|date=11 January 2025}}
*{{Cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/the-crying-game-neil-jordan-interview-30th-anniversary-1850128793|title=The Crying Game at 30: director Neil Jordan reflects on the film's complex legacy|website=avclub.com|last=Reesman |first=Bryan|date=18 February 2023}}
*{{Cite web|url=https://www.goldderby.com/film/2023/oscars-flashback-siskel-and-ebert-the-crying-game/|title=Oscars flashback: When Siskel and Ebert fought over spoiling 'The Crying Game'|website=goldderby.com |first=Christopher|last=Rosen|date=21 November 2023}}
*{{Cite web|url=https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/movie-spoilers-twist-endings-plot-twists|title=The 33 Greatest Plot Twists in Movie History|first=Scott|last=Weinberg|date=9 December 2016|website=Thrillist}}
</ref>

The then-fledgling film studio [[Miramax Films]] decided to promote the film in the U.S., where it became a [[sleeper hit]]. A memorable advertising campaign generated intense public curiosity by asking audiences not to reveal the film's plot twist regarding Dil's gender identity.<ref name="auto5"/> Those surveyed by [[CinemaScore]] on opening night gave the film a grade of "B" on a scale of A+ to F.<ref name="CinemaScore">{{cite web |url= https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |title= CRYING GAME, THE (1993)|work= [[CinemaScore]] |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181220122629/https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |archive-date= 2018-12-20 }}</ref> Jordan believed the film's success in the U.S. was a result of American audiences' unfamiliarity with the [[Ireland–United Kingdom relations|British–Irish politics]] depicted in the film. Jordan also believed that American audiences flocked to the film for what he called "the sexual politics".{{cn|date=October 2025}}

The film earned critical acclaim and was nominated for six [[Academy Awards]], including [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]], [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] (Rea), [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]] (Davidson) and [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]. Writer-director Jordan won the [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay]]. The film went on to find success around the world, and it was re-released in Britain and Ireland.{{cn|date=October 2025}}

=== Critical reception ===
''The Crying Game'' received worldwide acclaim from critics. The film has a 95% rating on [[Rotten Tomatoes]] based on 73 reviews, with an average rating of 8.30/10. The consensus states, "''The Crying Game'' is famous for its shocking twist, but this thoughtful, haunting mystery grips the viewer from start to finish."<ref>{{rotten-tomatoes|crying_game|The Crying Game}}</ref> On the review aggregator website [[Metacritic]] the film has a score of 90 out of 100 based on 22 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-crying-game/|title=The Crying Game|website=Metacritic.com|access-date=December 22, 2023|archive-date=23 December 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231223232028/https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-crying-game/|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Roger Ebert]] awarded the film a rating of four out of four stars, describing it in his review as one that "involves us deeply in the story, and then it reveals that the story is really about something else altogether" and named it "one of the best films of 1992".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ebert|first=Roger|author-link=Roger Ebert|date=18 December 1992|title=The Crying Game|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-crying-game-1992|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603091126/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-crying-game-1992|archive-date=3 June 2013|access-date=2 March 2021|website=[[RogerEbert.com]]}}</ref>

[[Richard Corliss]], in ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine, stated: "And the secret? Only the meanest critic would give that away, at least initially." He alluded to the film's secret by means of an [[acrostic]], forming the sentence "she is a he" from the first letter- "initial(ly)"- of each paragraph.<ref>Corliss, Richard. [http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101930125-160843,00.html "Queuing For The Crying Game"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200615042725/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101930125-160843,00.html |date=15 June 2020 }}, ''Time'', 25 January 1993.</ref>

Much has been written about ''The Crying Game'''s discussion of race, nationality, and sexuality. Theorist and author [[Jack Halberstam]] argued that the viewer's placement in Fergus's point of view regarding Dil being [[transgender]] reinforces societal norms rather than challenging them.<ref>Halberstam, Judith (2005), ''In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives'', New York: New York University Press, p. 81. {{ISBN|978-0-8147-3585-5}}.</ref>

[[David Cronenberg]] stated that he was disappointed by ''[[M. Butterfly (film)|M. Butterfly]]'''s reception and felt that it was overshadowed by ''The Crying Game''.{{sfn|Cronenberg|2006|p=132}} He said that the films paralleled each other as both were transsexual, transracial, and transcultural. He was critical of ''The Crying Game'' stating that the film "copped out" and that "the Stephen Rea character should have killed the black soldier" as it "would have made the movie so much more powerful because his guilt would have been so much greater".{{sfn|Rodley|1997|p=181-182}}

''The Crying Game'' was placed on over 50 critics' ten-best lists in 1992, based on a poll of 106 film critics.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-24-ca-2356-story.html |title=106 Doesn't Add Up |date=24 January 1993 |website=Los Angeles Times |access-date=2 March 2021 |archive-date=1 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801200207/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-24-ca-2356-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

The February 2020 issue of ''[[New York Magazine]]'' lists ''The Crying Game'' as among "The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at the Oscars."<ref>{{cite news|title=The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at the Oscars|url=https://www.vulture.com/article/best-oscar-best-picture-losers.html|magazine=[[New York Magazine]]|access-date=March 17, 2025}}</ref>

===Box office===
The film grossed £2 million ($3 million) in the United Kingdom.<ref name="screen">{{cite news |author=Rufus Olins |title=Mr Fixit of the British Screen |date=24 September 1995 |url=http://find.galegroup.com/stha/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=STHA&userGroupName=slnsw_public&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=FP1801908206&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 |newspaper=[[The Sunday Times]] |access-date=29 March 2014}}</ref> In the United States and Canada it was more successful, grossing $62.5 million, becoming Miramax's highest grossing film in that market at the time and, based on ''[[Screen International]]''{{'s}} definition of a British film, the second-highest grossing British film in the United States at the time.<ref name="screen"/><ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Screen International]]|date=August 11, 2000|page=21|last=Goodridge|first=Mike|title=Top 10 Miramax films of all time}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Screen International]]|date=November 18, 1994|page=25|title=Vampire steals limelight from Frankenstein}}</ref> Based on its US gross, it was the most successful film of the year on a cost to US gross basis.<ref name=returns/> It grossed a total of $71 million worldwide.<ref name=returns/>

== Awards and nominations ==
{{Main article|List of awards and nominations received by The Crying Game}}

== Soundtrack ==
The [[Soundtrack album|soundtrack to the film]], ''The Crying Game: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'', released on 23 February 1993, was produced by [[Anne Dudley]] and [[Pet Shop Boys]]. [[Boy George]] scored his first hit since 1987 with his recording of the title song – a song that had been a hit in the 1960s for British singer [[Dave Berry (musician)|Dave Berry]]. The closing rendition of [[Tammy Wynette]]'s "[[Stand by Your Man]]" was performed by American singer [[Lyle Lovett]].{{cn|date=October 2025}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1      = ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
| rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|4}}<ref>{{cite news|first=Dennis|last=Hunt|title=In Brief|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=11 April 1993|page=|accessdate=21 January 2023|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-11-ca-21479-story.html|archive-date=22 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230122002029/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-11-ca-21479-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev2      = ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]''
| rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref>Wood, Sam (2 March 1993). "Intriguing Music from Two Movies". ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]''.</ref>  
}}

# "[[The Crying Game (song)#Boy George version|The Crying Game]]" – Boy George
# "[[When a Man Loves a Woman (song)|When a Man Loves a Woman]]" – [[Percy Sledge]]
# "Live for Today" (Orchestral) – [[David Cicero (singer)|Cicero]] and [[Sylvia Mason-James]]
# "Let the Music Play" – [[Carroll Thompson]] (credited as Carol Thompson)
# "White Cliffs of Dover" – [[The Blue Jays]]
# "Live for Today" (Gospel) – David Cicero
# "The Crying Game" – Dave Berry
# "[[Stand by Your Man]]" – Lyle Lovett
# "The Soldier's Wife"*
# "It's in my Nature"*
# "March to the Execution"*
# "I'm Thinking of You"*
# "[[Dies Irae]]"*
# "The Transformation"*
# "The Assassination"*
# "The Soldier's Tale"*

<nowiki>*</nowiki>Orchestral tracks composed by Anne Dudley and performed by the [[Pro Arte Orchestra]] of London.

== See also ==
* [[Breakfast on Pluto (film)|''Breakfast on Pluto'']] (2005)
* [[List of films featuring the Irish Republican Army]]
* [[List of transgender characters in film and television]]
* [[List of transgender-related topics]]
* [[BFI Top 100 British films]]

==Notes==
{{notelist|notes=

{{efn|name=jordanjay|Neil Jordan has said that he saw the character of Dil as "a transvestite and a gay man, basically... not a transsexual".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD2lhfB53Bs | title=In conversation with The Crying Game cast: 'Gene Hackman was in love with Dil' | access-date=31 March 2024 | archive-date=19 April 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200419145041/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD2lhfB53Bs | url-status=live | quote="The character was a transvestite and a gay man, basically... She's not a transsexual"}}</ref>}}

}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Works cited==
* {{cite book|last=Cronenberg |first=David |author-link=David Cronenberg |title=David Cronenberg: Interviews with Serge Grünberg |publisher=Plexus Publishing |date=2006 |url=https://archive.org/details/davidcronenbergi0000cron |isbn=0859653765}}
* {{cite book|editor-last=Rodley |editor-first=Chris |title=Cronenberg on Cronenberg |publisher=[[Faber and Faber]] |date=1997 |url=https://archive.org/details/cronenbergoncron0000cron |isbn=0571191371}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0104036}}
* {{mojo title|cryinggame}}
* {{rotten-tomatoes|crying_game}}
* {{Metacritic film}}

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[[Category:English-language independent films]]
[[Category:Japanese LGBTQ-related films]]
[[Category:LGBTQ-related crime drama films]]
[[Category:English-language crime drama films]]
[[Category:English-language crime thriller films]]
[[Category:English-language romantic drama films]]
[[Category:LGBTQ-related independent films]]