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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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 [Region 2] Reviews:
Disturbing Reality for Kids 
2009-11-30 - This film is disturbingly fantastic. The raw depiction, in almost documentary form, shows young people dealing with the frightening, real horrors of a predator/prey sensibility resulting from oppression, peer pressure and a need to belong. NOT for kids.
KIDS
2009-11-27 - I purchased the above movie a few weeks ago, unfortunately i only got a chance to watch it on thanksgiving day, but it is not in english, and i don't have the original receipt, can you tell me how i can go about replacing it for the english version. Thank you.
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.
