Synopsis
Inspired by real events, this ribald comedy pits an unlikely gang of students against their principal after she bars safe-sex activities on campus. Protesting Principal Weller's muzzling of free speech, the teens stage a bold and hilarious rebellion.
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Cast
- Gregory SmithHolden Donovan
- Caitlin WachsKatie Carmichael
- Stephanie SherrinCharlotte Pratt
- Nicole RichieKelly Stepford
- Julie BowenPrincipal Weller
- Rosanna ArquetteAbby Pratt
- Elizabeth PerkinsSondra Carmichael
- Samantha MathisJennifer Rose
- George WendtCoach Thompson
- Alex AnfangerLawrence Reitzer
Recommendations
- 75
Chicago Sun-Times
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. - 40
Village Voice
Nicole Richie loyalists are sure to be confounded (along with the rest of us) by Kids in America, the weirdly anti-Bush high school "satire" that is also Richie's big-screen debut. - 40
Dallas Observer
Has its heart in the right place, but its head seems to be lost in a swirling maelstrom of teen movies that have come before. - 40
L.A. Weekly
A trite teen comedy burdened with lofty aspirations of rallying adolescent audiences to political action. - 40
Variety
Josh Stolberg launches a scalding attack on the stodgy conservatism of the American public school system, only to end up stacking the deck in egregiously smirky and simple-minded ways. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Well-meaning but woefully unconvincing. - 40
The New York Times
Because Kids in America can't decide whether it wants to be a stock teenage comedy or something more, it ends up stranded in the middle of nowhere. - 38
New York Post
Filmmaker Josh Stolberg claims to have been inspired by real-life events, but mostly he ineptly rips off other movies and wastes a cast that includes Rosanna Arquette, Adam Arkin and Elizabeth Perkins.
