Kids [Region 2] |  | Director: Larry Clark
Actors: Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, Chloe Sevigny, Sarah Henderson, Joseph Chan
Category: DVD
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Rating:  372 reviews
Sales Rank: 201075
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 91 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5031556334139
ASIN: B000056IEI
Theatrical Release Date: July 28, 1995
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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
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great movie, but I doubt I'll watch this again for the next 3 months June 4, 2009
Mr. Noodles (San Diego, CA, USA)
While I thought this was a good film, some scenes were hard to watch. Such as the beginning and ending parts, where Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick) deflower two young underage girls, and where Casper (Justin Pierce) rapes Jenny (Chloe Sevigny) in her sleep. All Telly wants to do is de-virginize young girls. Jenny, one of Telly's previous sex partners, Jenny finds out she has an HIV, after only having sex once. She looks for Telly, only to catch him doing another girl, giving her an HIV. Jenny falls asleep, depressed, and Casper rapes her, giving him an HIV.
I am aware that the kids were only acting, but stuff like this actually happens in the world. Children as young as 10-12 doing drugs, underage sex, and receiving HIVs, and the parents don't do anything. This film was also very controversial, some claimed it "borerline child pornography". But this was a great film, even though I won't be watching it again for a while, because I was shocked from everything.
If you liked "Kids", you will like "Ken Park", which actually contains more explicit content than this one.
 Is there more May 7, 2009
Byron Lydell Green
The movie was incredible! The actors did a bang up job and everything fell perfectly into place but my only small concern was that I heard a lot of awesome music in the movie but NONE of it was on the soundtrack.
Disturbing & Painfully Accurate May 3, 2009
S. Noggle (Cincinnati, OH)
As much as this movie may disturb it's audience, it's a painful reality of the world we live in today. I watched this film for the first time a few years ago, and I truly forgot how disturbing it was. I recently watched a TV show that mentioned it and I decided to buy it, and give it another shot. I definitely think a few years made a huge difference because the next time I watched it, although still disturbing, I realized what a powerful, and painful film KIDS is.
This is a movie that is definitely not for young children. It is very graphic, and the constant reminder that the characters are in fact, Kids, is at times very off-putting and upsetting. However, it is an accurate depiction of how over-sexualized teens & young teens are today. It is a true testament of our society today. This movie deals with various issues like drug use, violence, STDs, AIDs, and even rape.
KIDS is a painful, but amazing movie.
 Not as bad as I thought it would be February 9, 2009
Richard Ross
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Even though this film wasn't as graphic as I had feared it is still very disturbing and uncomfortable to watch. I think that is to be expected of any film that begins with a rape and ends on a double rape. However the film has good things going for it. It has an important message about safe sex that while the delivery is sometimes questionable the lesson is very important. It also features amazing performances by its young cast which includes Leo Fitzpatrick, Chloe Sevigny, and Rosario Dawson making their film debuts. Taking place in New York during one hot summer day the film focuses on two groups of teens. Telly (Fitzpatrick) who dubs himself "the virgin surgeon" is sharing the graphic details of his latest conquest with his best friend Casper (Justin Pierce). The language in this film is more than vulgar it is disgusting and in terrible taste. Casper jokes about his cousin having rough sex with a handicapped girl at one point. Telly makes it his duty to devirginize as many girls as will allow it. On this particular day he is making it his mission to achieve the impossible : sex with two virgins in one day. He already has his next victim picked out and she happens to be the younger sister of one of Telly's and Casper's friends. As Telly and Casper wander the streets stealing, drinking, and doing drugs on the other side of town Jenny (Chloe Sevigny) is receiving life changing news. Jenny accompanies her best friend Ruby (Rosario Dawson) to the clinic where both girls get tested for sexually transmitted diseases. Ruby has had sex with at least nine guys often without protection whereas Jenny has only slept with Telly over a year ago. Ruby passes with a clean bill of health while Jenny tests positive for HIV. Jenny is devastated and makes it her mission to track down Telly and tell him the bad news before he can infect anyone else. (At this point Dawson disappears from the film.) The film is shocking for showing kids as young as twelve or thirteen smoking, taking hits from pipes, drinking, and engaging in sex. There is also a scene in the park where a large group of kids are buying grass and Casper has a run in with a black man. At the slightest hint of a threat Casper and at least ten other kids jump this guy and beat the hell out of him. The film is full of shocking and disturbing moments like this and director Larry Clark just lets the camera roll for an unbearable amount of time. It goes over the line many times and is often too much to handle but it is admittedly well made and very well acted. When it came out in '95 it may have been a "wake up call" as critics put it but with all of the reality t.v. and other films focusing on teens that came after it it feels somewhat tame. There aren't many new revelations in terms of teens who aren't holding back when it comes to experimenting with sex or drugs. The film shows how easily manipulated and pressured teens are by their friends and how serious this can be if they suffer from low self esteem. It is a well made and disturbing film that is worth seeing at least once.
3 stars out of 4 January 19, 2009
One-Line Film Reviews (Ann Arbor)
The Bottom Line:
Kids can be difficult to watch at times, but it's not exploitative and offers a searing look at the ennui of modern youth as only Larry Clark can deliver.
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