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Kids in America |  | Director: Josh Stolberg
Actors: Gregory Smith, Julie Bowen, Malik Yoba, Stephanie Sherrin, Chris Morris
Studio: Screen Media
Category: DVD
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 63503
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 91 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 29918
UPC: 025192991820
EAN: 0025192991820
ASIN: B000CNER2W
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Release Date: March 7, 2006
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| • | "Kids In America" presents the experiences of young people in modern-day America. Set in the fictional Booker High School a diverse group of students are tired of seeing their freedoms taken away by the school administration, so they band together and change their world by empowering themselves and their community to protect freedoms of expression and speech. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COM |
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"Kids In America" presents the experiences of young people in modern-day America. Set in the fictional Booker High School a diverse group of students are tired of seeing their freedoms taken away by the school administration so they band together and change their world by empowering themselves and their community to protect freedoms of expression and speech.System Requirements:Running Time: 91 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: PG UPC: 025192991820 Manufacturer No: 29918
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 You know all those "brainless high school comedies"? Here's what one would look like if it had brains." January 18, 2010
Mark Twain 58675 (Florida, MO USA)
I can't say it better than Rodger Ebert: "Once in a blue moon a movie escapes the shackles of its genre and does what it really wants to do. "Kids in America" is a movie like that. It breaks out of Hollywood jail. You know all those "brainless high school comedies"? Here's what one would look like if it had brains."
 Would give it a 0 October 5, 2009
Sylvia Zakusilov (Elkhart, IN)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was very offended when I saw this movie played on a local TV station. I am relatively young (26), but even I see the danger these kinds of movies are to our society.
1. This movie encourages and promotes rebellion. The adults are portrayed as stupid and hardheaded. Already kids/teens are very disrespectful to adults and teachers. Teaching them to swear at and fight authority is utterly wrong; no wonder we have so many people breaking laws. There is no respect for authority.
2. This movie showed a scene were students were all kissing/making out with each other; guys with guys, girls with girls, etc. What is next on movies for teens- naked orgies??? Lets get this straight- I work as an emergency department RN, and I see teens come in with STD's on a daily basis. WE DONT NEED MORE MOVIES TO ENCOURAGE TEEN SEX!!! Already kids are oversaturated with sex everywhere; there is no need for this. Studies are showing that just promoting condoms do not work; condoms are not 100% effective against HIV, Herpes, HPV, Chlamydia, pregnancy, or Gonorrhea; only abstinence is!! (a HIV virus is hundreds of times smaller than a sperm cell, and condoms were only invented to prevent the passage of sperm; but are still only 80% effective against pregnancy... who would gamble with their life that way???)
3. Why don't we encourage sweet innocence on movies anymore??? I am going back to watching Little House on the Prairie and Brady Bunch; shows that were clean, healthy for families, and taught good lessons. I do not want my children watching movies encouraging them to ridicule teachers. I want my kids to look forward to learning, to be kind and respectful, and to spend their time studying hard and getting good grades. TH
4. Most teens in the USA are spoiled and selfish. I've been overseas where people are grateful for even the basics of life. THE KIDS IN THIS MOVIE SHOULD GO OVERSEAS TO INDIA AND SEE WHAT LIFE IS LIKE WITHOUT HIGH SCHOOL OR TEACHERS!!! THEY SHOULD BE THANKFUL THEY EVEN HAVE FOOD, HOUSING AND BOOKS TO LEARN FROM!!! (And that they even have teachers in the first place!!!)
5. Let schools get like what is being promoted in this movie and people will even more so: cheat, lie, sleep around, murder each other, etc... WE NEED MORE MORALITY AND RESPECT FOR AUTHORITY IN THE USA- NOT LESS! No wonder our violence is so high compared to other countries.
I'm so disgusted by what this movie represents, and sadly is becoming more prevalent in today's society... We will just have more and more school shootings in the future...
Extremism in the defense of liberty is, in fact, a vice... July 19, 2007
jebi44 (Dallas, TX United States)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Borderline propaganda thinly disguised as entertainment... This movie is so preachy and politically heavy-handed, that after watching it you'll feel like you've been socked in the jaw by Michael Moore.
The gist of the movie is that the "hero" kids want to dictate how and what they're taught in school, particularly regarding sex education. Sort of defeats the purpose of education if the kids are so convinced they already have all the answers, but this irony/hypocrisy is apparently lost on the filmmakers. The kids go to such obnoxious extremes to enforce their will on the school administration, that it's hard to imagine that any objective viewer will still be rooting for them by the end of the movie, and yet that is clearly the filmmakers' deluded intention. I found myself rooting for the "evil" high school principal. I wonder if the filmmakers would be proud that I rebelled against their establishment, or disturbed that I chose the "wrong" side.
Some of the things held up as liberties are so laughably absurd, that it makes the kids look more stupid than bravely idealistic. (Pretending to commit suicide during a school talent show is a constitutional right? Seriously?) As one might expect, this movie follows the disturbing trend of portraying all kids as good and wise and most adults (expect for those that agree with the kids, of course) as bad and buffoonish. The characters are all one dimensional. The "antagonist" adults are portrayed as having no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
This movie was "inspired" by actual events. Somehow, I have the feeling that the "real" kids probably did have a legitimate gripe against an overbearing principal. However, the kids in the movie are so blindly convinced that they are right and everyone who disagrees with them is wrong, that they elicited no empathy from me at all.
People Become What They Hate June 22, 2007
John W. Schlatter (Grand Junction, Colorado)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
A movie that champions freedom of speech for Bigots as the only freedom they promote is freedom for themselves but not for any who has different points of view...This piece of piled on propaganda is uneven and a great example of card stacking argumentation....It is the usual technique of like minded folks to portray anyone who disagees with them as totally stupid and evil...
First of all it portrays a crowd of conformists..Whenever ever everyone thinks a lot...NO ONE THINKING...
These are the same people who would shout down any conservative speaker who might appear on their campus...I taught school for years and these are not typical high school kids....
What 'principles/" did these infant minds brains champion? Drugs, homosexuality, free sex on demand...No counter arguments are given any space...
These 'champions of freedom?' would protest against any science teacher who would offer arguments championing the theory of creation science, any stuent starting a Bible club, the formation of ROTC classes...
These are examples of the people who have controled our culture since 1963 and helped to champion new sexually transmitted diseases, 40% of children being born to unwed mothers, increased drug use, ignorance of American history, falling graduation rates....
THE SLOGAN OF THE PEOPLE WHO CREATED THIS TRASH....
FREEDOM OF 'ME' BUT NOT FOR 'THEE'...Jack Schlatter
"You're so gay, Cher wears YOUR clothes" January 13, 2007
David M. Rossi
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Yes, it's some of the jokes like the one in the title that do sort of mar this otherwise brilliant, quick paced movie that pulls out all the stops to make its' point. Like the slightly smarter and more realistically presented Pump Up the Volume, Kids in America delves deep into the root of a major issue, a principal who has nothing but her own interests and future as a superintendant in mind. Unlike Pump whose high school population only really becomes active at the end, Kids' high school's students get involved right away. Throughout the movie they create some positive havoc in some truly jaw dropping ways. At the end, we hear our head revolutionary offer us "So, did we change the world? If not, its still early in the week" and yes, it seems that a phrase such as this is a perfect way to end this all too short film. They may have just got the ball rolling, which is exactly as it should be. There is work to be done in this fashion within schools all across America.We send our kids to these learning institutions every day. So as you watch Kids in America, take the cheesy jokes in stride and see the hugely important issues presented. You'll be glad you did.
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