Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24741 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-02-26
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 87 minutes

Synopsis
Booker High has fallen under the draconian leadership of Principal Weller (Julie Bowen), who is systemically revoking the rights of the school's students in her effort to become School Superintendent. Fortunately, English teacher Mr. Drucker (Malik Yoba), a former documentary filmmaker specializing in social issues, is encouraging a small group of students to change the world. Most inspired by Drucker is Holden Donovan (Gregory Smith of TV's EVERWOOD), who uses a talent show as a platform to lambaste Weller's suppression of free speech. His stunt gets him expelled, but he isn't deterred from haunting the school--with some help from a similarly determined group of free-thinkers--and seeing that Weller never makes it to the school board. Taking the average teen flick template and twisting it into something smarter, Josh Stolberg's funny, good-natured KIDS IN AMERICA provides the requisite amount of sex jokes, but makes a clear case for freedom of expression and tolerance. Unabashedly critical of the Bush administration, it also sees Weller cite the Patriot Act as a defence for ignoring students' rights and expelling two gay students for kissing. Paying homage to classic teen films and using interviews with real kids who upheld free speech in their schools to replace the usual closing credits outtakes, KIDS IN AMERICA challenges the ordinary.

Customer Reviews

FUNNY, SEXY, JUST BRILLIANT
Nicole Richie looks stunning in this teen comedy, it has everything you would like to see in a teen movie and it even poses some serious questions.

The story is about a group of class mates who act out revenge on thier headmaster.

A great cast and a simply great film, I cannot believe this was never at the cinema!
Highly reccomended

Good movie but.....
I bought this movie cause I saw it had Nicole Richie in it but it turns out that her role was quite pointless, however its a really good movie and I would reccomend it to fans of teen comedy however not to fans of Nicole Richie.