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    Bully Director: Larry Clark Cast: Brad Renfro, Rachel Miner, Nick Stahl, Bijou Phillips

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    • DVD Release Date: 01/22/2002
    • Original Release: 2001
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 26,216

    Viewer Rating: (9 ratings)

    Detailed Rating: "Unforgettable" See All

     
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    Scenes

    Features

    Cast & Crew Interviews; Music Only Track; Trailer

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    0. Scene Index
    1. Sandwich Boys [6:49]
    2. Dancing Queen [5:10]
    3. Taking Turns [5:36]
    4. Two Red Lines [4:13]
    5. Influences [4:31]
    6. Say It [5:24]
    7. Source of Trouble [3:45]
    8. Great Ideas [3:23]
    9. Dinner & a Plan [5:21]
    10. Irritating [5:22]
    11. Wasted [5:32]
    12. Mad [6:54]
    13. C.M.F. [6:21]
    14. Ride [5:24]
    15. Say Alligators [5:40]
    16. Disciplinary Action [3:22]
    17. North Beach [2:02]
    18. Nature Sucks [4:18]
    19. We Did It [2:36]
    20. Spreading the News [5:30]
    21. Hotline [3:00]
    22. Where's Marty? [4:24]
    23. Trial [2:23]
    24. End Credits [5:23]

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    Editorial Reviews

    Photographer and filmmaker Larry Clark, who made a controversial feature debut with the disturbing drama Kids, returns with another disquieting look at amoral and sexually precocious youth. Bobby (Nick Stahl) is a high school student growing up in southern Florida in the early '90s. Bobby is also a borderline psychotic; he frequently lashes out with brutal violence against those around him and especially enjoys humiliating his best friend Marty (Brad Renfro). While Bobby professes to hate and fear homosexuals, he goads Marty into performing phone sex with men, makes Marty and his friends watch hardcore gay porn films with him, and may have sexually abused Marty. But Marty is hardly the only victim of Bobby's abuse; Bobby has sexually assaulted Marty's girlfriend Lisa (Rachel Miner) and more than once has barged in on the couple while they were making love. Lisa's best friend Ali (Bijou Phillips) has also been raped by Bobby, and he has mistreated nearly everyone in their circle of friends. One night, Marty, Lisa, Ali, and several others decide Bobby's cycle of abuse must stop. But their solution is as ugly as the problem -- the teens stab Bobby, slit his throat, crush his head with a baseball bat, and throw his body into the bay, where the remains will be eaten by alligators. Bully is based on a book by journalist Jim Schutze, which recounted the facts of the 1993 murder of Bobby Kent, who after years of abusing his friends and classmates, was killed by seven of his acquaintances in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. As with Kids, Larry Clark's startlingly graphic depiction of sex, violence, and drug use among teenagers crossed the boundaries of what the MPAA could permit in an R-rated film, and the picture's distributors chose to release the film without a rating. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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    Customer Reviews

    The Reason I've Never Seen "Kids"by Gonzo84

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    May 13, 2009: I remember catching this film on IFC a couple years ago. I'd heard a lot about "Kids" and how extreme and intense the themes that surround that film are portrayed. When I viewed this feature I didn't know that this one was directed by the same director of "Kids." After watching the film, like another reviewer on here, I felt pretty sick to my stomach. The story really got to me. Some people might view this film and feel that there isn't any real plot or story, except teenagers doing drugs and having lots of sex, but isn't that what primarally what a lot of teenagers do these days and especially these characters. The fact that this film is based off of a true story, which was first written into a True Crime book, which makes this film all the more relevant and real. Every actor did an awesome job at portraying their characters. It's not easy pulling off a true story and stick to realism. This film does that perfectly. The characters are all people we've gone to High School with, the Stoners, Nerds, Sluts (sorry), Shy, and ultimately the Bullies. Of course the Bully within this film is taken to more levels than usual, but that's what makes this story and film what it is, there's a reason for the ending and a reason for why this story in real life is so heavily controversial. It's kind of like Columbine, when those shootings happened, everybody scrambled around wondering why and when the subject of "Bullying" came up, it made all the more sense of what can ultimately happen if someone is pushed to far. It's sad, but it's the crazy thing about life and I think that's what this film offers. A perspective on the crazy/dark side of human behavior being pushed beyond controllable limits. What's funny is that this film doesn't have any more elements than you'd find in a "Law and Order" episode. A teenager is bullied by a friend/stranger and is pushed too far. This film goes all the way to the very core though, whereas Television shows can't. And the acting doesn't even compare. All and all this is a wonderful piece. It's not something you'd want to snack to or be entertained from, but more learn from. Hopefully people would take something away from this film, there is a lot of lessons to be learned. For those of you though who view this film and are as affected by it as much as I was at first, the feature sort sticks with you and haunts you, especially since the story stimulates a lot of new thoughts. I like that though about this film, it's kind of like what I felt after watching Basketball Diaries, where I couldn't sleep at all cause my mind was thinking too much.

    I Also Recommend: Requiem for a Dream / Pi, Elephant, To Die For, The Basketball Diaries, This Boy's Life.

    A reviewerby Anonymous

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    April 08, 2007: I am a big fan of this movie. If you like films that are not overglossed or full of generic dialogue, give this one a try. I thought it was very well-written and acted. You become drawn into the atmosphere of these kids from the start, and I thought it was easy to see how it could have been based on a true story. I found it to be a very authentic portrayal of kids caught up in such a situation and I would highly recommend it, even though it should be noted that the film deals with some very mature subject matter.


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