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Written by David Morgan

Ethan Hawke, Mark Ruffalo, and Amanda Peet will star in actor Brian Goodman's autobiographical crime drama Real Men Cry, produced by Bob Yari's Yari Film Group. The Hollywood Reporter says that,

Hawke and Ruffalo will play childhood friends Paulie and Brian, respectively, who are forced to survive on the tough streets of South Boston through a life of petty thievery. They join a local gang of criminals, but Brian finds it hard to reconcile his work and friendship with Paulie and his relationship with his wife (Peet) and son.

First time director Goodman sounds decidedly more tough than some of the more famous Bostonians like Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg.

I came from a broken home and was living in survival mode.

Sure, blame it on the parents.  

I have three bullets in me, one in the back of my head.

Show off. THR narrates:

After decades of drug and alcohol abuse, Goodman went to prison for assaulting an in-law he says abused his relative. Beginning in the late '90s, he began getting small roles in Boston films. It was then that he befriended Donnie Wahlberg at a high-stakes card game. The two collaborated on the screenplay with fellow Boston native and actor Paul T. Murray.

Goodman on casting: 

I sat down with Mark and Ethan and told them, 'You are two on a very short list of men who could've been in films 35 years ago, when men were men.'

Really? Those two? Yeah, they're good actors, but the manliest men out there? And if we're comparing them to the actors of 35+ years ago, they aren't exactly Lee Marvin and Robert Mitchum.