“Ahead of its time in its evocation of an unabashed queer universe that dares to just be.”
—Frameline

“This is a queer and trans film that delights in exploiting the loopholes of polite society in order to make a better life on one’s own terms.”
—Paste Magazine

“Twenty-five years later, queer classic BY HOOK OR BY CROOK still feels ahead of its time … wholly original, a gritty transmission from the margins of society … operating beyond definitions of genre or gender and creating a cinematic language all its own.”
—Queerty

A trans and butch buddy film as radical as the day it was made, BY HOOK OR BY CROOK is the story of Shy, a gender-bending dreamer, whose plans for a life of crime collide with Valentine, an adoptee searching for her birth mother. Together, these two misfits forge an unlikely, yet genuine bond. New 4K restoration.