Opens as a study on a teen with some social/behavioral issues. The film makes sure never to label, then gently tangents from the study into a sweet spontaneous love story.
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Billy The Kid (2007)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:24
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: Jennifer Venditti's doc Billy the Kid turns "special" into a double edged sword, forging a sharply honest film around a strangely enigmatic -- if awkward -- kid named Billy.
Theatrical Release:Dec 5, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Jennifer Venditti makes an astonishing directorial debut with BILLY THE KID. A New York City-based casting director, Venditti discovered the 15-year-old Billy Price while working on a short film in... [More]
Director: Jennifer Venditti
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Reviews for Billy The Kid
... a window into the world of adolescence, where everything is immediate and intense and important.
01/10/08
The documentary Billy the Kid presents the world according to a troubled teenager in Maine.
12/05/07
Top CriticBilly's resilience, though, is nothing short of amazing. Not to mention part of growing up.
02/08/08
Top CriticA raw, touching, unfiltered look at the teenage angst that Hollywood usually turns into brain-dead comedy.
02/08/08
Top CriticIt's not quite clear why Venditti thought the film's annoying teen with ADD would make an interesting subject.
12/04/07
Billy the Kid is a heartbreaking vérité documentary by Jennifer Venditti about a misfit Maine teenager -- a film that makes you think about (and question) what fitting in really entails.
12/03/07
Top CriticJennifer Venditti's documentary profile of 15-year-old Kiss fan Billy is truly something special.
12/05/07
What makes Billy the Kid extraordinary is not that it grants seeming access to private moments, but that it makes clear as well the inherently public nature of the filmmaking process.
01/17/08
Billy the Kid, a movie that's as interesting as it is dewy-eyed, may be the rare snapshot of an adolescent 'outcast' who is really the guy made for fame, with a built-in radar for how to present himself in front of the camera.
01/09/08
Top CriticBilly suggests Child is Waiting's autistic Rueben, only having been given a chance at a normal life by a mother who never succumbed to the shame that grips Gena Rowland's Sophie throughout Cassavetes's drama.
12/02/07
What you ultimately take from the film is the awareness that this smart, self-aware, uncensored kid has been playing to a camera in his own head since well before Venditti came along.
02/07/08
Watching Billy the Kid duplicates -- as much as any movie probably can -- the fascinating process of trying to figure out someone you've just met.
02/08/08
The movie marks the directorial debut of Jennifer Venditti, whose ability to convey the innocence of youth and the universal anguish of being an outsider suggests a natural ear for the emotional rhythms of growing up.
12/05/07
It's an incredibly intimate portrait, and one that feels more universal for its refusal to court a grander significance.
12/05/07
Billy, who suffers from Aspergers Syndrome, is sympathetic, but you can easily understand why he's a social outcast. This is a film about Billy, not about his condition.
06/09/09
The best documentaries take you places you don't normally have access to.
02/29/08
Top CriticThere's something to be said for Venditti's ability to build the kind of trust with a subject necessary to get full participation.
12/06/07
Nobody ever said growing up a small-town geek was easy. I know from personal experience, and so does Billy Price, the subject of director Jennifer Venditti's affecting documentary Billy the Kid.
12/07/07
Top CriticThe thoughtfully sweet slightness of Venditti's film happens also to be the source of its immense charm, and in Billy she has a golden subject,
12/04/07
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