Kids

3.20
    Kids
    1995

    Synopsis

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

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    Cast

    • Leo FitzpatrickTelly
    • Justin PierceCasper
    • Chloë SevignyJennie
    • Rosario DawsonRuby
    • Yakira PegueroDarcy
    • Atabey RodriguezMisha
    • Harold HunterHarold
    • Jon AbrahamsSteven
    • Sajan BhagatPaul
    • Sarah HendersonGirl #1

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Rolling Stone

      Cautionary tales aren't new. What sets Kids apart as daringly original, touching and alive is its authenticity.
    • 90

      Variety

      Disturbing because it is so believable, Kids goes well beyond any previous American film in frankly describing the lives of at least a certain group of modern teenagers.
    • 88

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Since Fitzpatrick is an actor (and "no ladies' man," he told Clark), this is a performance and, as such, one of the most effective I've seen. It's amazing how, watching the film, you dislike Telly so much you want to deny Fitzpatrick's accomplishment in creating him.
    • 80

      The New York Times

      Mr. Clark's vision of these characters is so bleak and legitimately shocking that it makes almost any other portrait of American adolescence look like the picture of Dorian Gray...Kids is far too serious to be tarred as exploitation, and its extremism is both artful and devastatingly effective. Think of this not as cinema verite but as a new strain of post-apocalyptic science fiction, using hyperbole to magnify a kernel of terrible, undeniable truth.
    • 60

      Empire

      Without a doubt, hard hitting and thoguhtful, but Clarke's style here (as it would continue to do) hints at something altogether more disturbing.
    • 58

      Entertainment Weekly

      If Kids is simultaneously engrossing and detached, observant and just plain showy, that may be because the film is so caught up in trying to be a statement that it never develops its characters beyond their rowdy, bellicose facades.
    • 40

      Los Angeles Times

      Kids is more tedious than titillating, one of those cinematic irritations more interesting to read about than to see.
    • 40

      Time Out

      The tone is relentlessly sordid, the view of these pubescent hedonists so hermetic, that the film-makers' 'honesty' seems exploitative and sensational. The film may not say anything new, but the way it says it does, in the end, make it some sort of landmark. Depressing.

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