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12 O'Clock Boys

2013, Documentary, 1h 14m

50 Reviews 1,000+ Ratings

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Visually striking and grippingly fast-paced, 12 O'Clock Boys asks thought-provoking questions with admirable subtlety and restraint. Read critic reviews

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A Baltimore boy named Pug idolizes a group of dirt-bike riders who raise havoc on city streets. Lacking any other significant male role models, Pug hopes to join their ranks one day.
  • Genre:
    Documentary
  • Original Language:
    English
  • Director:
    Lotfy Nathan
  • Producer:
    Lotfy Nathan, John Kassab, Eric Blair
  • Release Date (Theaters):
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  • Box Office (Gross USA):
    $44.1K
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  • Distributor:
    Oscilloscope Pictures

Cast & Crew

Lotfy Nathan
Lotfy Nathan
Director
Lotfy Nathan
Lotfy Nathan
Producer
John Kassab
John Kassab
Producer
Eric Blair
Eric Blair
Producer
Taylor Gillespie
Taylor Gillespie
Executive Producer
Lotfy Nathan
Lotfy Nathan
Cinematographer
Thomas Niles
Thomas Niles
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Critic Reviews for 12 O'Clock Boys

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Audience Reviews for 12 O'Clock Boys

  • Feb 01, 2014
    '12 O'Clock Boys'. Tragic as both a character study and broader social commentary on what people live for in their day-to-day struggles. Dangerous escapism as seen by outsiders looking for the temporary kind is darkly ironic. Lotfy Nathan found someone special in Pug. Bright, ambitious, destined for doom. Nature nor nurture have been particularly good to him as a young boy, and it doesn't look like that cycle is stopping anytime soon for him and others in Baltimore. What's been eating away at me ever since I walked out of the theater is how much Nathan's decision to document Pug's quest drove him even further. Would he have done everything he did if a camera wasn't on him? The ending seemed particularly exploitative. You see the pursuit of power, fame and notoriety, driven all the more by social media. The film ending where it does, I'm afraid of what effects this will have on the next generation of Baltimore's 12 O'Clock Boys.
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  • May 02, 2013
    A good if slightly odd documentary. There is nothing triumphant in the expressions of urban black youth on their dirt bikes in Baltimore. They are being a pain in the ass and yet somehow they have some type of glory in the neighbourhood. The activity clearly should be just stamped out.
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