Bully [Region 2] |  | Director: Larry Clark
Actors: Brad Renfro, Nick Stahl, Bijou Phillips, Rachel Miner, Michael Pitt
Category: DVD
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Rating:  206 reviews
Sales Rank: 113212
Format: PAL
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Running Time: 113 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5014138295172
ASIN: B00006G9W1
Theatrical Release Date: December 12, 2001
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 BULLY DVD November 6, 2009
ramon perez
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Classic October 29, 2009
William R. Nicholas (Mahwah, NJ USA)
You would not know, but these are somebody's children. You should thank God they are not yours
Bobby has been bullying his best freind Marty all their lives. This is not the big brother type of bullying that accidently emerges in even some of the best friendships. Bobby makes Marty strip in gay clubs, then keeps the money. He punches Marty for grazing the curb with his car. He smacks him for the hell of it. Makes him feel powerful.
Bobby is the kid going to college. Marty surfs. But when Marty meets Lisa, he realizes for the first time he can exist as more than an abused appendage to Bobby. Bobby can't have this, and soon has Lisa after smaking her with a belt when she and Marty are having sex
Marty has probably felt trapped all his life, but is now just realizing it. He is not as cunning as his evil twin, and has much more limted prospects. Lisa and her freinds decide-almost casually--Bobby should die, and she, Marty and the possee decide just to do that. These aimless, jobless, drug addled kids could not put a glee club together, but they want to try the perfect crime. I'll let you guess how long it takes for this to unravel and the kids to wind up on death row.
Bully is based on a true story that happened in Florida, and would be great material for any filmaker. But it is Larry Clark's direction that makes the film a classic. Its the little details: the sweaty skin of the druged teens, the cold, dialated pupels; the way one girl says "I have a little boy but its cool, my parrents take care of him," as if she is talking about a pet fish. She never refers to him again or asks how he is.
Or the way Bobby refers to every girl he meets as B---h on indroduction, or lives that center around bad hip hop, video games, and drugs. Even when these kids are shown having sex, they are breathy, sickly white, wet with druggy sweat. It is not lovemaking--it is just another way these numb, stupid, unloved kids feed their own emptiness.
Where are the parents? That is not the question. The better question is where WERE they all these years. These kids may have had an alternative, but was it ever presented to them, when they were three, five, seven, thirteen?
No. Probably not.
Surprisingly good even for people who don't like Larry Clark August 21, 2009
Tim Lieder (New York, NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I must confess up fron that I hate Kids. I hate the casual nihilism. I hate the fact that Larry Clark is pretending that he wants us to feel bad about these creeps when he's just getting off on their horrible-ness. I hate the artless art where everyone mumbles their way through the movie as if they are stoned. Yes, the movie gave us Chloe Sevigny and Rosario Dawson, but I put it up there with The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover as a movie that art snobs claim to love but is at heart crap. And I publish books like BADASS HORROR so it's not like I'm a prude that gets the vapors at nihilism or violence.
When I started this movie, I didn't hold out much hope. Brad Renfro staring at the camera looking angry and mean was a bad sign especially when you think that this guy is the hero. The fact that he was capable of creating compelling characters in movies like Apt Pupil Entertainment Poster Print, 27x40 didn't register. And the fact that he's allowing himself to get pushed around throughout the movie, first by Nick Stahl (as the title character) and then by Lisa, the mumbling girlfriend, doesn't help.
But then as the movie continues, something happens. Maybe it's because Nick Stahl does some horrible things but his personality comes through and you can see why Renfro hangs out with him. Maybe it's the way that Lisa worms her way into the psyche of Renfro so he starts following her instead of Stahl and maybe it's just the way Renfro uses his characteristics to show that he's not just a passive observer in his life, but a truly angry teenager who is going through a slow burn of rage just simmering beneath the surface.
And the scene where Lisa confesses to her friend about the murder (there's a murder in this movie) and she doesn't know whether she wants to laugh it off or admit to being freaked out is Larry Clark at his best. I didn't know that such an entity existed.
So even though you have to get over the mumbling documentary feel and the casual nihiliism to enjoy this movie, unlike Kids, it's actually worth the effort.
ANd the actor who played Telly shows up and sounds like Ray Romano. I found that funny.
 Insteresting teen movie June 21, 2009
D. Hendrickson (St. Charles, Mo. USA)
Bully was interesting to a degree it looked upon the life of a troubled teen and perhaps what any teen's life might be, the movie dealt with frustrations many teens might feel, the sexual encounters looked to be about what teen his age might be undertaking and having to deal with a lifelong bully seemed Plausible. The movie seemed to be based on what a teen might think, his judgements, thoughts, and the way a teen might view the world, not realizing any serious consquences for his actions. This movie has many sexual situations and nudity, male and female which might give it higher box office revenues, but using these scenes was necessary, it showed what I suspect is a very real life of a teen, though most of us parents don't want to admit it. The teens final Solution (it's safe to say) is not what most teens experience.
Masterpiece!!! June 18, 2009
Gary P. Deblasio (Connecticut)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Just an excellent, underrated film. This is the true story of the murder of Florida teenager Bobby Kent. Kent had his throat slit by a gang of his peers one night, supposedly for bullying his childhood pal Marty Puccio. The case was widely reported on and most of what you see is accurate. Everyone is first rate in the cast. I loved even the annoying Rachel Minor, because her character (Puccio's GF) was supposed to be annoying.
The sad thing is that a boy was murdered essentially for no reason and that teens without supervision ruined their lives for nothing. There is an overwhelming sense of free-floating anxiety which permeates this well-written film. This coupled with the fact that the star (Brad Renfro) died a few years after shooting this picture makes for an eerie concordance. What a waste you might say, of not only the characters but the main actor.
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