Revisiting the sexual-identity themes of his big hit "The Crying Game," writer-director Neil Jordan scores with this bittersweet and revealing portrait of an Irish transvestite (Cillian Murphy) searching for his birth mother in 1970s London. A great soundtrack of tunes from the era backdrop the film, which is adapted from a novel by Patrick McCabe, who co-wrote the script. British rocker Bryan Ferry, the frontman for Roxy Music, costars as a homicidal nutcase. Liam Neeson, Stephen Rae.