Written by Neil Jordan, who directed the film, The Crying Game is the story of a tender romance between an Irish Republican Army (IRA) thug named Jimmy Fergus and a sweet transvestite hairdresser-cum-lounge singer named Dill Pickle (a reference to her possession of a penis). Concerned with extreme sexual perversion, the movie pretends to scrutinize racism, sexism, and nationalism. Desperate to attain respectability as a pornographic film, it even bills itself as a “romance.” Its stars, Stephen Rea (Fergus) and Jaye Davidson (Pickle) found it “profound and deeply moving, almost orgasmic in its intensity,” and Jordan won the 1992 Academy Award for Silliest Script.