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Kids [DVD] [1996]
enlarge	Director: Larry Clark Actors: Leo Fitzpatrick, Sarah Henderson (II), Justin Pierce, Joseph Chan, Johnathan Staci Kim Studio: Momentum Pictures Category: DVD Buy New: £42.50 as of 24/11/2009 00:38 GMT details New (3) Used (8) from £10.75 Seller: fabfilmfactory Rating: 34 reviews Sales Rank: 10988 Format: PAL, Widescreen Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Region: 2 Discs: 1 Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 93 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5060021171382 ASIN: B000056IEI Theatrical Release Date: July 28, 1995 Release Date: January 29, 2001 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review Larry Clark's controversial IKids/I is a film about New York City adolescents walking the AIDS tightrope, but it's also an unblinking look at the dehumanising rituals of growing up. 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. --ITom Keogh, Amazon.com/I

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 34 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next » Brilliant. March 31, 2005 Brrnrrd (London) 14 out of 15 found this review helpful I have a thing for films that cast no judgement. This is one such film, that follows some pretty horrible kids around for 24 hours, but there is no moral conclusion, and it exposes the attitudes of teenagers 'today'. I recognised quite a few of my peers in that film, particularly among the boys; selfish, arrogant, narrow minded and shallow. The girls' depiction was very refreshing for once, particularly at the beginning; I thought the conversations they were having were quite similar to the kind I have with my friends - though we are considerably less crude. :/ pI suppose the reason I love this film is because not only is it gritty, shocking and real, but it manages to be predictable and painful at the same time. Inevitability, is the better word, for what happens at the end. I think the box's description of 'a day when everything and nothing will change' is spot on. A not-so-healthy slice o' life August 4, 2003 13 out of 14 found this review helpful When I was watching "Kids" for the first time, I was thinking: are there really kids living like this? The answer is probably yes. It seems like they don't know any better. At the end of the movie at least one of the characters seems to realise what he was doing with his life, and most likely learned from his experience(s).brThe movie was a real eye-opener. Many (parents, for example) will label it a "difficult" movie because of all the violence and the sex scenes... granted, not for all eyes ears. But the fact is, things like scenes in this movie happen every day, somewhere on the planet. Don't close your eyes for them.brThe dynamics of this movie really made me think of what makes personae in a movie tick... It's not just an action movie, or a thriller, or a science fiction movie. You really zoom in on the characters (and their actions, motives, passions) more than anything else.brAnd as long as you're reading: if you like the music in the movie, I'd suggest you buy the excellent soundtrack, mostly containing tracks by The Folk Implosion. This movie was very powerful. April 16, 2001 5 out of 5 found this review helpful This movie is possibly the greatest film that I have ever seen.It portrays the lives of adolescents at its worst yet does it in such a way that it makes you realize just whats going on in the world today.It brings to attention the dangers of sex,drugs and alchohol.Being a teenager myself the movie does a very good job of depicting life as a teen in an inner city. Gritty but Excellent March 26, 2006 13 out of 15 found this review helpful It's about kids sleeping around, getting in fights, and stealing. You won't like it, right? Wrong. This is an awesome film, set from the point of view of a bunch of kids growing up in your average American city. They're bored, so they did what a lot of us did or wanted to do.pThe best part about this film is the way it tries not to judge the kids, merely to document how they live. You're not going to get Bruce Willis turning up to catch these young criminals on the job. On the other hand, one of them gets the ultimate come-uppance right at the end, and you can't tell me you don't think he deserved it? Harsh and squalid, yet utterly stimulating February 8, 2002 Silvère Fuseau (France) 8 out of 9 found this review helpful Watching this film means you have to deal with two conflicting feelings, for you can't possibly come to terms with its moral, intellectual, visual violence and cynicism. On the other hand, the way Larry Clark makes the spectator a priviliged witness of the personnal and intimate lives of this group of teenagers, the way he leaves you totally free to interpret it in moral terms and actually gives you time to question yourself about the action, makes you want to watch it to the end and watch it over and over. The soundtrack largely contributes to those feelings.brThe script is so far away from conventional Hollywood movies -which are essentially unidimensional as far as characters and scenario are concerned. Here the director doesn't attempt to capture the audience's pathos or compel them to react in a required way.pI wouldn't say it is addressed to younger audience though. I very much doubt Clark intended to teach anything with this film. I think it's much a question of showing rather than deterring. Showing reviews 1-5 of 34 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next »

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