Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2693 in DVD
• Released on: 2001-01-29
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 93 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Larry Clark's controversial Kids is a film about New York City adolescents walking the AIDS tightrope, but it's also an unblinking look at the dehumanising rituals of growing up. It really doesn't add up to more than the sum of its various shocks--virgin-busting, skinny-dipping, male callousness--overlayed with middle-class disapproval. Clark is hectoring us for cutting kids loose at a terrible time in modern American history, but so are a lot of other people who also offer alternatives and ideas. The film does nothing to push us toward new thoughts, new solutions, new dreams. It is more like a window onto our worst fantasies about what our children are doing out there on the streets. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

Special Features

• Trailer

DVD Technical Information:

• Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo: English
  
• Running Time: 93 mins
  
• Region Code: 2
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85 Wide Screen
  
• Subtitles: None

Synopsis
A group of street-tough Manhattan teens fight, party, take drugs, have sex, and scoff at the consequences in this unflinching account of one day in their lives. Larry Clark's controversial, bleak portrait of societal decay originally garnered an NC-17 rating, which the filmmakers surrendered, opting instead to release the film unrated. KIDS features the screen debuts of Chloe Sevigny and Rosario Dawson.

Customer Reviews

dissapointing
I would not reccomend this dvd. I don't know what the rest of the reviewers are talking about. This is not a good movie. I never leave a review but i felt i had to warn people. I bought this dvd as it had a high star rating after watching it i realise it shouldn't. The lead actor is not good looking enough to charm so many girls.

disappointing
To echo the thoughts of other reviwers: in short- disappointing. Controversy for controversy's sake. I'm not impressed, really. The film wasn't awful though. It just did not live up the hype.

dull dull dull.
I like to remember this film as the only one I ever actually walked out on at the cinema. The director is obviously (and blatantly) trying to be all shocking and controversial (ooo look teenagers having sex - there's a surprise), but succeeds only in creating utter tedium. Ok, I guess the young actors give good performances overall, but they all play unlikeable/loathsome characters who it's difficult to give a damn about.