Movie Maker
http://www.moviemaker.com/articles/item/kimberly_peirce_3334/
by A.G. Basoli

The story of Teena Brandon, a Nebraska girl who reinvented herself as a dashing ladies' man named Brandon and was raped and killed by two ex-cons s/he had befriended, is told by Peirce with keen insight into the social dynamics of the small mid-western town where the crime occurred.