A powerful piece of work, one not easily forgotten.
Kids (1995)
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Reviews Counted:51
Fresh:26
Rotten:25
Average Rating:5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: A bleak and uncompromising look at the dangerous world of New York street kids. The film focuses on the sexual experiences of Telly, a teen-aged seducer who desires only virgins. When Jennie --... A bleak and uncompromising look at the dangerous world of New York street kids. The film focuses on the sexual experiences of Telly, a teen-aged seducer who desires only virgins. When Jennie -- who's had sex solely with Telly -- tests HIV positive, she frantically searches the city to tell him he's infected. Eventually, she finds him, but too late, for he's already deflowered his latest adolescent conquest. [More]
Starring: Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, Chloë Sevigny, Rosario Dawson
Starring: Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, Chloë Sevigny, Rosario Dawson
Director: Larry Clark
Director: Larry Clark
Screenwriter: Harmony Korine
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Reviews for Kids
Trashy and exploitational. Clark comes off like a skuzzy pornographer taking advantage of his cast while using a faux vérité excuse as his accomplice.
Clark's direction -- luminous, real, charged, hallucinatory -- is excellent, but Korine's script is so busy being amused by it's own excesses that it doesn't really tell us anything about the characters involved.
None of the advance hype on Kids can prepare you for the raw, stripped-down reality that Larry Clark captures in his astonishing first film.
There really are some kids who think like this, and these are the kids who should see this film.
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