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Kids (1995)

Directed by Larry Clark

Drama

Most recently watched by Angjonesy, Javitron

Overview

A day in the life of a group of teens as they travel around New York City skating, drinking, smoking and deflowering virgins.

Rated NC-17 | Length 91 minutes

Actors

Leo Fitzpatrick | Justin Pierce | Chloë Sevigny | Rosario Dawson | Yakira Peguero | Atabey Rodriguez | Harold Hunter | Jon Abrahams | Sajan Bhagat | Sarah Henderson | Joseph Chan | Johnathan Staci Kim | Adriane Brown | Billy Valdes | Billy Waldeman | Javier Nunez | Luis Nunez | Christian Bruna | Alex Glen | Julia Mendoza | Gillian Goldstein | Priscilla Forsyth | Carisa Glucksman | Francine Fuertes | Deborah Draper | Billy Solomon | Johanna Ignatov | Raymond Batista | Julie Stebe-Glorius | Christiana Stebe-Glorius | Dr. Henry | Hamilton Harris | Jeff Pang | Giovanni Estevez | Karyn Grupski | Mike Hernandez | Peter Bici | Ryan Sikorski | Jim Gordy | Louie Louie | John Perez | Rich Arbitelle | Nuri Bell | Medwin Pang | Jamie Story | Jeff Simmons | Jam | Daniel Phillips | Jamal Simmons | Thierry Oddo | Ronald Hunter | Frank Natiello | John Carter | John Dean | Jimmy Lalputan | Tony Morales | Walter Youngblood | Ellsworth Davis | Joseph Knopfelmacher | Michele Lockwood | Yancy Scot Schwartz | Sydney Prawatyotin | Carl Ly-Min | Harmony Korine | Darice Liguidi | Beth Weinstein | Jason Inconstanti | Alexandra Karabell | Zulaika Velazquez | Nick Lockman | Joey Alvarez | Gerry Smith | Lavar McBride | Julie Ho | Lila Lee | Regina Mei | Amy Moy | Lisa Acevedo | Corinne Deleon | Susan Wood | Alan Wise

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Viewing Notes

So. Depressing.

I remember that shocked feeling I had watching this on it’s first VHS release in the mid-90s, and some of that feeling still resonates today.

Plenty of movies and TV shows use the handheld gimmick, ad nauseum, to achieve a more realistic/documentary feel. For the most part I’m unfazed, if not annoyed by this, but in KIDS it really works. I know this is scripted, I know (at least some of) these kids are actors, but it sure as hell seems real at times. At least as real as the drugs they use.

One note about something I find especially creepy is the sound of the leather, or possibly pleather, couch as the rape happens and when the young boy is being kissed by a girl as he giggles uncomfortably. Something about that noise is unsettling and it gives me shivers each time I watch the film.

For a movie so sad and down, it does give quite a few laughs and good one-liners… “butterscotch, yo”... “my girl’s got mad flavor, heavy flow”... and that girls-vs-guys chat about sex - priceless.

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