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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Lions Gate
Salesrank: 1320
Released: November 7, 2000 |
| Our Price: $7.87 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Powerful and passionate colorful and compelling Larry Clark s KIDS is 24 frenetic hours in the lives of a group of contemporary teenagers who like all teenagers believe they are invincible. With breathtaking images from one of the world s most renowned photographers KIDS is a deeply affecting no-holds-barred landscape of words and images depicting with raw honesty the experiences attitudes and uncertainties of innocence lost. KIDS gets under the skin and lingers long after it is viewed. The kids at the core of the story are just that: teenagers living in the urban melee of modern-day America. But while these kids dwell in the big city their story could quite possibly happen anywhere. System Requirements: Running Time 91 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 031398751823 Manufacturer No: 71855
Description of Kids:
Larry Clark's controversial film about New York City adolescents walking the AIDS tightrope is also an unblinking look at the dehumanizing rituals of growing up. But it really doesn't add up to more than the sum of its various shocks--virgin busting, skinny-dipping, male callousness--overlayed with middle-class disapproval. Clark is hectoring us for cutting kids loose at a terrible time in modern American history, but so are a lot of other people, who also offer alternatives and ideas. The film does nothing to push us toward new thoughts, new solutions, new dreams. It is more like a window onto our worst fantasies about what our children are doing out there on the streets. --Tom Keogh
Kids Reviews:
Kids for Real 
2008-08-25 - A must see for every mature teen. So realistic and so real. A lot of kids are good and can't relate but a lot of people can relate and this movie is everyday life for a lot of teens who are just out livin life.
So real it's scary.
Love this movie
2008-07-16 - This movie all takes place in one day, but tells the story on how kids screw up their lives. It's all a big cycle. This movie is very artsy. The first time I saw it I fell in love with it and bought it the next day. I can't even describe how good this movie is.
Prompt and Perfect
2008-07-06 - Prompt and perfect...even if it reminds us that New York kids are "rough"
I'm Emo from the Bronx
Punks...HIV...and life goes on 
2008-07-01 - This can be a very distubing movie if you allow yourself to get into the real theme and don't pay attention to the horrible acting. Rosario Dawson and her girlfriends were a lot more beleivable than the boys wild almost orgy scenes. The think i remember about this movie is the ending...Telly has just broken in another virgin and given her HIV...his life is about to be hell and he doesn't know it...and in the end life goes on in the city. Buisness as usual and nobody really is going to notice unless it's you or your that has this monster disease. Telly is badly in need of an A @ @ kicking and that goes for the whole lot of the boys like Casper. This is disturbing because there is so lil' interaction from adults in this film that at times it seems as if it's a documentary...Like Thirteen and Bully, Also Alpha Dog...this is an explosive world and this is one of the scenes behind "Door # 1"...thank god my kids biggest problems are picking up their clothes...! I don't care at all for the poor acting as in the afore mentioned movies the acting is all superb...this is the biggest shortcoming in this lil' movie with a big kick in the head.
An Artist documents America The Doomed
2008-06-02 - Kids
Sex
Dope
. . .repeat
Kids
Lies
Theft
. . .repeat
Kids
Rape
Brutality
. . .repeat
This is today's American youth? We're doomed; this is moral implosion.
My generation, and we weren't particularly thoughtful or polite, used words such as: peace, please, love, thank-you, welcome. . .I don't think I heard any or those words here. (Sorry, "love" is used in the film, but only as a personal lubricant.)
These KIDS are subhuman. They beat; they rob; one--and this is his goal?--tries to claim two virgins in one day.
Quit moralizing, you might say; this is only a movie and these are only actors. But--really--this is a documentary. In the ending credits, Clark claims credit for "original story". But there is no story here; it's just kids let loose. (Sorry: 21st-century American kids let loose.)
About as depressing a movie as I have ever seen.
