Product: Kids (1995)
Rating: 2.0
Don't even bother
This film deserves 2 stars because it is different and does make you feel sad and empty, so I guess you have to give a film something that makes you feel that way. You also have to mind that these kids were just actors. After having taught in the New York Public Schools in New York for two years and growing up as a white teen in the Mission Hill section of Roxbury, Massachusetts, I can say that the kids in this movie make up less than .2% of the kids in the inner cities. Lots of kids have drank when they were 8 or 9 but not many of them act as stupid as these kids. People just arent that bad in real life, and most of the kids in NYC are great. Many kids in the suburbs or parts of the city that have money have an attraction to these kinds of movies becuase of some insecurities of their own, and want to be a part of this urban culture because of something that they are missing in their own lives. I guess this movie had a message that people are bad in many cases, but overall it is a movie that doesn't have one likeable character or moment. If you felt good after this movie or thought it was "the bomb" then you have problems and should go see a doctor, or simply get a life.