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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Lions Gate
Salesrank: 2479
Released: November 7, 2000 |
| Our Price: $4.87 |
| Used Price: $2.69 |
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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 life 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 the urban melee of modern-day America. But while these kids dwell in the big city, their story could, quite possibly, happen anywhere.
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:
Intense reality 
2009-10-10 - well casted movie with intense subject matter. Exaggerated at times but many times shockingly true.
I had to watch and so did my kids
2009-10-09 - It may make your pre-teen or teenager uncomfortable to watch, but it will open their minds and get them to think which is exactly what we want for them to do. At least that's what I want my 3 daughters to do. Think. Think before reacting to all horomone drunken thoughts. I had to watch it when I was a teenager and so do they. Anyhoo, good buy.
Must See 
2009-08-12 - Clark takes the daily life of most teenagers today and puts it on film for all the world to see. A great way to scare your kids from having unprotected sex in case you need a visual backup.
a MUST see....
2009-07-15 - for parents and teens alike. although graphic, the message is still just as true today as it was when this movie first came out in theaters. the really interesting thing is that no matter where you live, this could be happening.... very thought provolking...
great movie, but I doubt I'll watch this again for the next 3 months
2009-06-04 - While I thought this was a good film, some scenes were hard to watch. Such as the beginning and ending parts, where Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick) deflower two young underage girls, and where Casper (Justin Pierce) rapes Jenny (Chloe Sevigny) in her sleep. All Telly wants to do is de-virginize young girls. Jenny, one of Telly's previous sex partners, Jenny finds out she has an HIV, after only having sex once. She looks for Telly, only to catch him doing another girl, giving her an HIV. Jenny falls asleep, depressed, and Casper rapes her, giving him an HIV.
I am aware that the kids were only acting, but stuff like this actually happens in the world. Children as young as 10-12 doing drugs, underage sex, and receiving HIVs, and the parents don't do anything. This film was also very controversial, some claimed it "borerline child pornography". But this was a great film, even though I won't be watching it again for a while, because I was shocked from everything.
If you liked "Kids", you will like "Ken Park", which actually contains more explicit content than this one.
