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* AmateurCast: All actors involved, both teens and adults, were unprofessional amateurs at the time. Some, like Creator/ChloeSevigny and Creator/RosarioDawson, have since then become more notable actors.
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* SexIsEvil: All sex depicted in this movie is either semi-rape (the boy not caring whether the girl enjoys it, even when she is in pain) or downright rape. It's also completely devoid of any other emotion than pure lust and teens just spread STD's around, making the scenes even more repulsive.
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* SexIsEvil: All sex depicted in this movie is either semi-rape questionably consensual (the boy not caring whether the girl enjoys it, even when she is in pain) or downright rape. It's also completely devoid of any other emotion than pure lust and teens just spread STD's around, making the scenes even more repulsive.
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* ParentalAbandonment, ParentalObliviousness and ParentalNeglect: Telly's mother never asks her son what he is doing all day and night long. We don't learn why this is so, but it is implied that he comes from a broken home. With all the other teens it's also an open question where the parents are at half of the time? Are they at work? Are the teens orphans? Are they all clueless or don't they care at all? Even the teens don't mention them much.
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* ParentalAbandonment, ParentalObliviousness and ParentalNeglect: Telly's mother never asks her son what he is doing all day and night long. We don't learn why this is so, but it is implied that he comes from a broken home. With all the other teens it's teens, there's also an open question questions: where are the parents are at half of the time? Are they at work? Are the teens orphans? Are they all clueless or don't they care at all? Even the teens don't mention them much.
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Implied by [[spoiler: the rapist unknowingly contracting HIV]].
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Implied by [[spoiler: the rapist Casper unknowingly contracting HIV]].
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* OutOfCharacterMoment: Casper [[spoiler: who is portrayed as gullible for drugs, but does give a beggar some money in one scene. Compared to his demonic friend Telly he also comes across as far more sympathetic. Yet in the end even he turns to the dark side by raping a drugged out girl in her sleep.]]
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* OutOfCharacterMoment: Casper [[spoiler: who is portrayed as gullible for drugs, but does give a legless beggar some money in one scene. Compared to his demonic friend Telly he also comes across as far more sympathetic. Yet in the end even he turns to the dark side by raping a drugged out girl in her sleep.]]
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** See LaserGuidedKarma for what happens to the rapist.[[spoiler: Casper]].
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Telly, who never cared about the well being of any of his partners and considered AIDS a myth, contracted HIV. The rapist in final scene also contracts this disease.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Telly, who never cared about the well being of any of his partners and considered AIDS a myth, contracted HIV. The rapist Casper ends up raping Jennie in the final scene scene, also contracts this contracting the disease.]]
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* AdultFear: This film is pretty much every parents' worst nightmare about what their sons and daughters (might) do behind their backs: having unprotected sex and getting deadly venereal diseases as a result, drinking, smoking, taking drugs bought right on the street (which is always dangerous because you don't know what you're being sold), stealing, hanging out with people who are a bad influence on them, showing no respect to other people, even downright murdering somebody, breaking in and entering buildings, raping someone or getting raped,... At a certain point it does get [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped a bit over the top]], especially since the characters all do this in the timespan of only one day...!
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* AdultFear: This film is pretty much every parents' worst nightmare about what their sons and daughters (might) do behind their backs: having unprotected sex and getting deadly venereal diseases as a result, drinking, smoking, taking drugs bought right on the street (which is always dangerous because you don't know what you're being sold), stealing, hanging out with people who are a bad influence on them, showing no respect to other people, even downright murdering somebody, breaking in and entering buildings, raping someone or getting raped,... raped, etc. At a certain point it does get [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped a bit over the top]], especially since the characters all do this in the timespan of only one day...! day!
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The film is extremely controversial for its frank, unabashed depiction of [[HormoneAddledTeenager teen sexuality]], deliquency and drug use, landing it an NC-17 rating. It is notable for using [[AmateurCast untrained actors]] actually recruited from the street (this was Sevigny and Dawson's debut). [[LoveItOrHateIt Critical reception of it was mixed]], with some calling it "a wakeup call to America's youth" and others decrying as nothing more than a glorified [[ExploitationFilm exploitation film]] bordering on child porn with many scenes done for shock value only. Which is the case with all of Larry Clark's films and a lot by Harmony Korine too.
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The film is extremely controversial for its frank, unabashed depiction of [[HormoneAddledTeenager teen sexuality]], deliquency and drug use, landing it an NC-17 rating. It is notable for using [[AmateurCast untrained actors]] actually recruited from the street (this was Sevigny and Dawson's debut). [[LoveItOrHateIt Critical reception of it was mixed]], mixed, with some calling it "a wakeup call to America's youth" and others decrying as nothing more than a glorified [[ExploitationFilm exploitation film]] bordering on child porn with many scenes done for shock value only. Which is the case with all of Larry Clark's films and a lot by Harmony Korine too.
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* HumansAreBastards: Teens don't care about the ethics or consequences of their behaviour, while adults are just not aware of what these kids are doing half of the time. In some cases, like Telly's mother, they don't even care.
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* HumansAreBastards: Teens don't care about the ethics or consequences of their behaviour, while adults are just not aware of what these kids are doing half of the time. In some cases, adults, like Telly's mother, they don't even care.care about their children.
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* TimeMarchesOn: New York City as depicted in this film has changed a lot since this movie was made. Major of UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity Rudolph Giuliani, who was in charge from 1994 to 2001, oversaw a large clean-up of the city from crime, making the once crime-infested metropolis a lot safer in comparison.
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* TimeMarchesOn: New York City as depicted in this film has changed a lot since this movie was made. Major Mayor of UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity Rudolph Giuliani, who was in charge from 1994 to 2001, oversaw a large clean-up of the city from crime, making the once crime-infested metropolis a lot safer in comparison.
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* FromBadToWorse: Every time when you think the teens can't behave any worse than the previous scene it gets more shocking. The ending scene is a good example [[spoiler: Jenny fails to find Telly in time to tell him he gave her HIV and when she finally discovers him he is already having sex with another unsuspecting virgin, whose first time is extremely painful too, but he doesn't care about her feelings, even when she cries. Jenny doesn't do anything to stop them, as she swallowed some drugs some hours ago and is to dizzy and tired to react. Later on, as she sleeps off her drug effects she gets raped in her coma by Casper too, giving him HIV too.]]
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* FromBadToWorse: Every time when you think the teens can't behave any worse than the previous scene it gets more shocking. The ending scene is a good example [[spoiler: Jenny fails to find Telly in time to tell him he gave her HIV and when she finally discovers him he is already having sex with another unsuspecting virgin, whose first time is extremely painful too, but he doesn't care about her feelings, even when she cries. Jenny doesn't do anything to stop them, as she swallowed some drugs some hours ago and is to too dizzy and tired to react. Later on, as she sleeps off her drug effects she gets raped in her coma by Casper too, Casper, giving him HIV too.]]
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Leo Fitzpatrick and Justin Pierce star as Telly and Casper, two New York teenagers of around 17. [[KidAnova Telly's mission in life is to deflower virgins, referring to himself as the "virgin surgeon"]]. His latest sexual conquest has been Jennie (Creator/ChloeSevigny). The film charts a day in Telly and Casper's lives, as they go about their daily activities of [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy using black slang]], smoking pot, shoplifting, beating up a passerby who crosses them in the park, and attending midnight raves, whilst Jennie and her friend Ruby (Creator/RosarioDawson) attempt to track them down and give Telly some information of life-and-death importance.
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Leo Fitzpatrick and Justin Pierce star as Telly and Casper, two New York teenagers of around 17. [[KidAnova Telly's mission in life is to deflower virgins, referring to himself as the "virgin surgeon"]]. His latest sexual conquest has been 13-year-old Jennie (Creator/ChloeSevigny). The film charts a day in Telly and Casper's lives, as they go about their daily activities of [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy using black slang]], smoking pot, shoplifting, beating up a passerby who crosses them in the park, and attending midnight raves, whilst Jennie and her friend Ruby (Creator/RosarioDawson) attempt to track them down and give Telly some information of life-and-death importance.
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'''Kids''' is a 1995 Drama film directed by Creator/LarryClark and written by [[Creator/HarmonyKorine Harmony Korine]].
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* AuthorAppeal: The film has been criticized for showing real teenagers, some clearly underage, taking drugs on camera and being shown in semi nude and sexual positions. Seeing that Larry Clark also photograps such real life youngsters a lot and all of his other films have similar scenes it's clearly something that interests him.
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* AuthorAppeal: The film has been criticized for showing real teenagers, some clearly underage, taking drugs on camera and being shown in semi nude and sexual positions. Seeing that Larry Clark also photograps photographs such real life youngsters a lot and all of his other films have similar scenes it's clearly something that interests him.
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'''Kids''' is a 1995 Drama film directed by Larry Clark and written by [[Creator/HarmonyKorine Harmony Korine]].
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* UnexpectedPositive: Played for tragedy. A character who has only had sex once has an HIV test to encourage her promiscuous friend to do the same. Guess which one's positive.
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* TruthInTelevision: That said, longitudinal studies of adolescent and early adult sexual behavior in economically depressed urban areas frequently gather data which can be ''horrifying''.
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Misuse. The description for Broken Aesop specifically states that it only applies to Aesops that are broken in-story, and that metafictional ones don\'t apply.
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* BrokenAesop: While some have praised the movie as a perfect ScareEmStraight film, others feel the film exploits actual underage teenagers by having them indulge in alcohol, tobacco and drugs on camera and being depicted in sexual imagery without any considerance for their own health and/or any regrets they might feel about this when they've reached an older age. The fact that two actors involved in the film died an early age a few years later as a result of suicide (Justin Pierce, who plays Casper) and a drug overdose (Harold Hunter, who plays skater Harold) only adds to these accusations. The merits of this picture, if any, remain polarizing today.
** Interestingly enough, for a movie so intent on being realistic, racial intolerance is not a topic in this movie. Yet Telly and his friends do discriminate a homosexual couple.
** Interestingly enough, for a movie so intent on being realistic, racial intolerance is not a topic in this movie. Yet Telly and his friends do discriminate a homosexual couple.
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I questioned in the \"is this an example\" thread. The answers were: \"It doesn\'t seem like it. While they technically are children, they\'re not pre-teen (well, most, I assume), which is what the trope specifies. And from what I understand, they\'re not in a situation where they\'d have parents who\'d care enough. Also, the way I understand the trope, it\'s about where the parents let the children wander around while still being presented as parents who would care if their children went to dangerous or far-away places, or where it would otherwise be strange from a \"normal\" modern perspective. Street kids being street kids isn\'t the same thing. \" and \"The sad fact is that, in our modern world, there are children who are unsupervised by adults and form gang-like societies amid inner cities and such. That\'s not what the Free-Range Children trope is supposed to be about. \"
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* FreeRangeChildren: They are technically not children anymore, but they are still between the age of 12 to 17 and go to places where most sane parents would tell their offspring to stay away from, like locations where drugs are used. Only thing is... no adults are ever around.
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The film was is extremely controversial for its frank, unabashed depiction of [[HormoneAddledTeenager teen sexuality, sexuality]], deliquency and drug use, landing it an NC-17 rating. It is notable for using [[AmateurCast untrained actors actors]] actually recruited from the street (this was Sevigny and Dawson's debut). [[LoveItOrHateIt Critical reception of it was mixed, mixed]], with some calling it "a wakeup call to America's youth" and others decrying as nothing more than a glorified [[ExploitationFilm exploitation film]] bordering on child porn with many scenes done for shock value only. Which is the case with all of Larry Clark's films.films and a lot by Harmony Korine too.
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* AdultFear: This film is pretty much every parents' worst fear about what their sons and daughters do behind their backs: having unprotected sex and getting deadly venereal diseases as a result, drinking, smoking, taking drugs, stealing, even downright murdering somebody, raping someone or getting raped,... At a certain point it does get [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped a bit over the top]], especially since the characters all do this in the timespan of only one day...!
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* AdultFear: This film is pretty much every parents' worst fear nightmare about what their sons and daughters (might) do behind their backs: having unprotected sex and getting deadly venereal diseases as a result, drinking, smoking, taking drugs, drugs bought right on the street (which is always dangerous because you don't know what you're being sold), stealing, hanging out with people who are a bad influence on them, showing no respect to other people, even downright murdering somebody, breaking in and entering buildings, raping someone or getting raped,... At a certain point it does get [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped a bit over the top]], especially since the characters all do this in the timespan of only one day...! !
* AllMenArePerverts and AllWomenAreLustful: All the characters treat sex as a kick rather than anything more serious.
* AmateurCast: All actors involved, both teens and adults, were unprofessional amateurs at the time. Some, like Creator/ChloeSevigny and Creator/RosarioDawson, have since then become more notable actors.
* AllMenArePerverts and AllWomenAreLustful: All the characters treat sex as a kick rather than anything more serious.
* AmateurCast: All actors involved, both teens and adults, were unprofessional amateurs at the time. Some, like Creator/ChloeSevigny and Creator/RosarioDawson, have since then become more notable actors.
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* BrokenAesop: While some have praised the movie as a perfect ScareEmStraight film, others feel the film exploits actual underage teenagers by having them indulge in alcohol, tobacco and drugs on camera and being depicted in sexual imagery without any considerance for their own health and/or any regrets they might feel about this when they've reached an older age. It remains polarizing today.
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* BrokenAesop: While some have praised the movie as a perfect ScareEmStraight film, others feel the film exploits actual underage teenagers by having them indulge in alcohol, tobacco and drugs on camera and being depicted in sexual imagery without any considerance for their own health and/or any regrets they might feel about this when they've reached an older age. It remains The fact that two actors involved in the film died an early age a few years later as a result of suicide (Justin Pierce, who plays Casper) and a drug overdose (Harold Hunter, who plays skater Harold) only adds to these accusations. The merits of this picture, if any, remain polarizing today.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: The kids are shown as people who are morally unaware of what they are doing and freely indulge in illegal and ethically disturbing activities. So the [[SarcasticTitle fairly innocent sounding title is a complete subversion of this concept]]. Yet, at the same time there is still an innocence to them, as they don't think about the consequences of their dangerous behaviour.
* CorruptTheCutie: Children are usually perceived as innocent, adorable and the "hope for the future". This movie brutally shows them as horrible delinquents without a conscience, making you fear the worst about the way our society is heading.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Scriptwriter Harmony Korine made this film because he felt most other teenage movies always had actors who were way too old to play teenagers and their stories always had a happy end, which he felt didn't feel true.
* DoomedProtagonist: The girl in the opening scene and the four main characters [[spoiler:all get HIV and are doomed to die a young age, a consequence of their irresponsible/immoral behaviour.]]
* ExploitationFilm: The film has been accused of (''borderline'') being this. It sometimes feels as if the makers just wanted to shock their audience scene by scene and try to see how far they could push the boundaries with teen actors.
* FreeRangeChildren: They are technically not children anymore, but they are still between the age of 12 to 17 and go to places where most sane parents would tell their offspring to stay away from, like locations where drugs are used. Only thing is... no adults are ever around.
* FreeRangeChildren: They are technically not children anymore, but they are still between the age of 12 to 17 and go to places where most sane parents would tell their offspring to stay away from, like locations where drugs are used. Only thing is... no adults are ever around.
* GrotesqueGallery: Some of the actors appear to be cast on how ugly and repulsive they could look and act.
* HumansAreBastards: Teens don't care about the ethics or consequences of their behaviour, while adults are just not aware of what these kids are doing half of the time. In some cases, like Telly's mother, they don't even care.
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* KidAnova: Telly.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Telly, who never cared about the wellbeing of any of his partners and considered AIDS a myth, contracted HIV. The rapist in final scene also contracts this disease.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Telly, who never cared about the wellbeing of any of his partners and considered AIDS a myth, contracted HIV. The rapist in final scene also contracts this disease.]]
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* KidAnova: Telly.
Telly and Ruby.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Telly, who never cared about thewellbeing well being of any of his partners and considered AIDS a myth, contracted HIV. The rapist in final scene also contracts this disease.]]]]
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Jenny's reaction [[spoiler: to the news she has contracted HIV is very underwhelming. She doesn't cry, panic or get upset, but seems more confused than anything else. It could be argued that she is just in shock.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Telly, who never cared about the
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* ParentalAbandonment: The kids' parents are hardly seen or mentioned.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Director Larry Clark was hooked on heroin himself when he was a teenager and spent many years among his peers having the same kind of debaucherous life in New York City. He gained his first notability as a photographer in the 1970s, taking pictures of teens from broken and dysfunctional families taking drugs and stripping (half) nude on camera. He still spends company in the presence of teenagers today, despite being old enough to be their grandfather at this point. Make of that what you will...
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* RealityIsUnrealistic: The makers of "Kids" have suggested that a lot of the outrage over the depiction of everyday teenage life in this film has more to do with the fact that people are more used to safe, idyllic depictions of teenagers usually played by actors who are way too old to convincingly portray such roles. Most people aren't aware of actual teenage life or, as Larry Clark said: "Parents forget what it was like when they were kids."
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Scriptwriter Creator/HarmonyKorine himself was once a skater and actually met the director while doing this in the park. Korine was only around 21-22 years old when he wrote the script. All the teenage actors in the film were just random teens Korine and Clark met on the New York streets or people from Korine's own skater posse. Actress Creator/ChloeSevigny was Korine's girlfriend at the time. Director Larry Clark was hooked on heroin himself when he was a teenager and spent many years among his peers having the same kind of debaucherous life in New York City. He gained his first notability as a photographer in the 1970s, taking pictures of teens from broken and dysfunctional families taking drugs and stripping (half) nude on camera. He still spends company in the presence of teenagers today, despite being old enough to be their grandfather at this point. Make of that what you will...
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Scriptwriter Creator/HarmonyKorine himself was once a skater and actually met the director while doing this in the park. Korine was only around 21-22 years old when he wrote the script. All the teenage actors in the film were just random teens Korine and Clark met on the New York streets or people from Korine's own skater posse. Actress Creator/ChloeSevigny was Korine's girlfriend at the time. Director Larry Clark was hooked on heroin himself when he was a teenager and spent many years among his peers having the same kind of debaucherous life in New York City. He gained his first notability as a photographer in the 1970s, taking pictures of teens from broken and dysfunctional families taking drugs and stripping (half) nude on camera. He still spends company in the presence of teenagers today, despite being old enough to be their grandfather at this point. Make of that what you will...
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* SexIsEvil: All sex depicted in this movie is either semi rape (the boy not caring whether the girl enjoys it, even when she is in pain) or downright rape.
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* SexIsEvil: All sex depicted in this movie is either semi rape semi-rape (the boy not caring whether the girl enjoys it, even when she is in pain) or downright rape. It's also completely devoid of any other emotion than pure lust and teens just spread STD's around, making the scenes even more repulsive.
* ShoutOut: On Music/{{Eminem}}'s album ''Music/TheSlimShadyLP'' the character Slim Shady wants to take advantage of a drunk underage girl at a party. His conscience tries to talk him out of it:
--> ''Man, ain't you ever seen that one movie, ''Film/{{Kids}}?'' ''
* ShoutOut: On Music/{{Eminem}}'s album ''Music/TheSlimShadyLP'' the character Slim Shady wants to take advantage of a drunk underage girl at a party. His conscience tries to talk him out of it:
--> ''Man, ain't you ever seen that one movie, ''Film/{{Kids}}?'' ''
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* TeenageWasteland: All throughout the film teenagers just hang out freely and follow every possible kick they can find, from drugs to unprotected sex, without any regard for their environment. Adults are hardly seen [[spoiler:and the only one who tries to call them out for their bad behaviour is beaten up and presumably murdered by them.]]
* TeenageWasteland: All throughout the film teenagers just hang out freely and follow every possible kick they can find, from drugs to unprotected sex, without any regard for their environment. Adults are hardly seen [[spoiler:and the only one who tries to call them out for their bad behaviour is beaten up and presumably murdered by them.]]
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* TimeMarchesOn: New York City as depicted in this film has changed a lot since this movie was made. Major of New York Rudolph Giuliani, who was in charge from 1994 to 2001, oversaw a large clean-up of the city from crime, making the once crime-infested metropolis a lot safer in comparison.
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* TimeMarchesOn: New York City as depicted in this film has changed a lot since this movie was made. Major of New York UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity Rudolph Giuliani, who was in charge from 1994 to 2001, oversaw a large clean-up of the city from crime, making the once crime-infested metropolis a lot safer in comparison.
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* YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb: All of them just live for the moment and are quite clueless what they're doing with their monotone lifestyle. As Telly explains: "When you're young nothing matters much."
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* NoEnding: The film ends [[spoiler:after all the irrepairable damage by the teens' foolishness has taken place. Yet we never see Jenny telling Telly the big news and how he, Darcy, Casper would react to do that.]]
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* DrugsAreBad: The teens freely engage in drugs, not only alcohol and marihuana, but even heroin. [[spoiler:Jenny gets raped by Casper while she is in a drug induced sleep. If she hadn't done this she could have probably prevented or stopped Telly having sex with Darcy and especially being raped herself.]]
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* DrugsAreBad: The teens freely engage in drugs, not only alcohol and marihuana, but even heroin. [[spoiler:Jenny gets raped by Casper while she is in a drug induced sleep. If she hadn't done this she could have probably prevented or stopped Telly having sex with Darcy and especially avoid being raped herself.]]
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The film was extremely controversial for its frank, unabashed depiction of teen sexuality, deliquency and drug use, landing it an NC-17 rating. It is notable for using untrained actors actually recruited from the street (this was Sevigny and Dawson's debut). Critical reception of it was mixed, with some calling it "a wakeup call to America's youth" and others decrying as nothing more than a glorified [[ExploitationFilm exploitation film]] bordering on child porn. Such is the case with all of Larry Clark's films.
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The film was extremely controversial for its frank, unabashed depiction of teen sexuality, deliquency and drug use, landing it an NC-17 rating. It is notable for using untrained actors actually recruited from the street (this was Sevigny and Dawson's debut). Critical reception of it was mixed, with some calling it "a wakeup call to America's youth" and others decrying as nothing more than a glorified [[ExploitationFilm exploitation film]] bordering on child porn. Such porn with many scenes done for shock value only. Which is the case with all of Larry Clark's films.
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* AdultsAreUseless: It's not that the parents don't care, it's just that they are completely clueless.
* BigApplesauce
* BigApplesauce
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* AdultsAreUseless: It's not that the parents don't care, it's just that they are completely clueless.
clueless. It is strongly implied that bad/non-existant parenting is the cause of Telly being such a horrible, morally indefensible human being. His mother is depicted as being pregnant, yet smoking at the same time and doesn't ask her son any questions where he goes all day and night, only asking him to "be back tomorrow".
*BigApplesauceAdultFear: This film is pretty much every parents' worst fear about what their sons and daughters do behind their backs: having unprotected sex and getting deadly venereal diseases as a result, drinking, smoking, taking drugs, stealing, even downright murdering somebody, raping someone or getting raped,... At a certain point it does get [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped a bit over the top]], especially since the characters all do this in the timespan of only one day...!
* AuthorAppeal: The film has been criticized for showing real teenagers, some clearly underage, taking drugs on camera and being shown in semi nude and sexual positions. Seeing that Larry Clark also photograps such real life youngsters a lot and all of his other films have similar scenes it's clearly something that interests him.
* BigApplesauce: It takes place in New York City and depicts the city as a haven for debauchery.
* BrokenAesop: While some have praised the movie as a perfect ScareEmStraight film, others feel the film exploits actual underage teenagers by having them indulge in alcohol, tobacco and drugs on camera and being depicted in sexual imagery without any considerance for their own health and/or any regrets they might feel about this when they've reached an older age. It remains polarizing today.
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* AuthorAppeal: The film has been criticized for showing real teenagers, some clearly underage, taking drugs on camera and being shown in semi nude and sexual positions. Seeing that Larry Clark also photograps such real life youngsters a lot and all of his other films have similar scenes it's clearly something that interests him.
* BigApplesauce: It takes place in New York City and depicts the city as a haven for debauchery.
* BrokenAesop: While some have praised the movie as a perfect ScareEmStraight film, others feel the film exploits actual underage teenagers by having them indulge in alcohol, tobacco and drugs on camera and being depicted in sexual imagery without any considerance for their own health and/or any regrets they might feel about this when they've reached an older age. It remains polarizing today.
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* CurbStompBattle: The skateboard scene in the park.
* DeathBySex: Not before the end of the movie, but eventually.
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: In the next-to-last scene, a girl is raped while unconscious.
* DrugsAreBad
* DeathBySex: Not before the end of the movie, but eventually.
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: In the next-to-last scene, a girl is raped while unconscious.
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* CrapsackWorld: This cynical movie shows teenage life as dangerous, frightening, shocking and doomed. All of them just live for achieving egotistical kicks and nothing else. And the finale is such a DownerEnding that you might become an advocate for curfew for minors afterwards.
* CurbStompBattle: The skateboard scene in thepark.
park, [[spoiler: where a man is murdered by teens.]]
* DeathBySex: [[spoiler: Not before the end of the movie, buteventually.
eventually.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: Jenny [[spoiler: only had unprotected sex once and gets HIV]]
* DownerEnding: The film ends [[spoiler: with Telly, Casper, Jennie and Darcy getting AIDS. Telly's final narration states that without sex he has nothing implying he will further spread the disease. Or that he just will end his life when he finds out. He'll die anyway, so... ]] In real life the movie also had a downer ending. Actor Justin Pierce (Casper) committed suicide only five years after the release of the film, while actor Harold Hunter (playing Harold, one of the skateboarders) died of a drug overdose, six years after that.
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: [[spoiler: In the next-to-last scene,a girl Jenny is raped while unconscious.
unconscious.]]
*DrugsAreBadDrugsAreBad: The teens freely engage in drugs, not only alcohol and marihuana, but even heroin. [[spoiler:Jenny gets raped by Casper while she is in a drug induced sleep. If she hadn't done this she could have probably prevented or stopped Telly having sex with Darcy and especially being raped herself.]]
* FromBadToWorse: Every time when you think the teens can't behave any worse than the previous scene it gets more shocking. The ending scene is a good example [[spoiler: Jenny fails to find Telly in time to tell him he gave her HIV and when she finally discovers him he is already having sex with another unsuspecting virgin, whose first time is extremely painful too, but he doesn't care about her feelings, even when she cries. Jenny doesn't do anything to stop them, as she swallowed some drugs some hours ago and is to dizzy and tired to react. Later on, as she sleeps off her drug effects she gets raped in her coma by Casper too, giving him HIV too.]]
* CurbStompBattle: The skateboard scene in the
* DeathBySex: [[spoiler: Not before the end of the movie, but
* DisproportionateRetribution: Jenny [[spoiler: only had unprotected sex once and gets HIV]]
* DownerEnding: The film ends [[spoiler: with Telly, Casper, Jennie and Darcy getting AIDS. Telly's final narration states that without sex he has nothing implying he will further spread the disease. Or that he just will end his life when he finds out. He'll die anyway, so... ]] In real life the movie also had a downer ending. Actor Justin Pierce (Casper) committed suicide only five years after the release of the film, while actor Harold Hunter (playing Harold, one of the skateboarders) died of a drug overdose, six years after that.
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: [[spoiler: In the next-to-last scene,
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* FromBadToWorse: Every time when you think the teens can't behave any worse than the previous scene it gets more shocking. The ending scene is a good example [[spoiler: Jenny fails to find Telly in time to tell him he gave her HIV and when she finally discovers him he is already having sex with another unsuspecting virgin, whose first time is extremely painful too, but he doesn't care about her feelings, even when she cries. Jenny doesn't do anything to stop them, as she swallowed some drugs some hours ago and is to dizzy and tired to react. Later on, as she sleeps off her drug effects she gets raped in her coma by Casper too, giving him HIV too.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: Casper [[spoiler: who envies Telly for having more sex than him. When he sees that he scored again he eventually decides to rape Jenny in her sleep.]]
* GrossUpCloseUp: The director seems to take delight in depicting teenage love as repulsive and icky as possible, with the extreme closeups of characters' kissing each others' mouths in the opening shot as a typical example. It doesn't help that many teenagers in this movie aren't exactly portrayed as the most likeable or attractive characters. [[spoiler: And the notion that Telly has HIV makes it even more {{Squick}}.]]
* GrossUpCloseUp: The director seems to take delight in depicting teenage love as repulsive and icky as possible, with the extreme closeups of characters' kissing each others' mouths in the opening shot as a typical example. It doesn't help that many teenagers in this movie aren't exactly portrayed as the most likeable or attractive characters. [[spoiler: And the notion that Telly has HIV makes it even more {{Squick}}.]]
* HormoneAddledTeenager: Apart from drugs teenagers only seem to live for sex in this film.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: The rapist probably contracted HIV.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Telly, who never cared about the wellbeing of any of his partners and considered AIDS a myth, contracted HIV. The rapist probably contracted HIV.
** Probably not, actually. Female-to-male transmission rates for vaginal sex are about 0.04%, about oncein every 2500 sexual encounters.final scene also contracts this disease.]]
** Probably not, actually. Female-to-male transmission rates for vaginal sex are about 0.04%, about once
* NoEnding: The film ends [[spoiler:after all the irrepairable damage by the teens' foolishness has taken place. Yet we never see Jenny telling Telly the big news and how he, Darcy, Casper would react to do that.]]
* OneWordTitle: "Kids".
* OutOfCharacterMoment: Casper [[spoiler: who is portrayed as gullible for drugs, but does give a beggar some money in one scene. Compared to his demonic friend Telly he also comes across as far more sympathetic. Yet in the end even he turns to the dark side by raping a drugged out girl in her sleep.]]
* OneWordTitle: "Kids".
* OutOfCharacterMoment: Casper [[spoiler: who is portrayed as gullible for drugs, but does give a beggar some money in one scene. Compared to his demonic friend Telly he also comes across as far more sympathetic. Yet in the end even he turns to the dark side by raping a drugged out girl in her sleep.]]
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Implied by [[spoiler: the rapist unknowingly contracting HIV]].
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Director Larry Clark was hooked on heroin himself when he was a teenager and spent many years among his peers having the same kind of debaucherous life in New York City. He gained his first notability as a photographer in the 1970s, taking pictures of teens from broken and dysfunctional families taking drugs and stripping (half) nude on camera. He still spends company in the presence of teenagers today, despite being old enough to be their grandfather at this point. Make of that what you will...
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Director Larry Clark was hooked on heroin himself when he was a teenager and spent many years among his peers having the same kind of debaucherous life in New York City. He gained his first notability as a photographer in the 1970s, taking pictures of teens from broken and dysfunctional families taking drugs and stripping (half) nude on camera. He still spends company in the presence of teenagers today, despite being old enough to be their grandfather at this point. Make of that what you will...
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* SarcasticTitle: The title brings up far more innocent associations than what is depicted in this movie.
* ScareEmStraight: Though some critics have argued: more for parents than for the teens themselves.
* SexIsEvil:It's All sex depicted in this movie is either semi rape (the boy not exactly clear if caring whether the girl enjoys it, even when she is in pain) or downright rape.
* SmokingIsNotCool: Telly's mother smokes while being pregnant.
* STDImmunity: [[spoiler: At least four characters that we know of either havesex because they're evil, HIV (Telly, Jenny) or if they're evil because they have sex, but there's a definite correlation in there somewhere.serious chance of having contracted it.]]
* ScareEmStraight: Though some critics have argued: more for parents than for the teens themselves.
* SexIsEvil:
* SmokingIsNotCool: Telly's mother smokes while being pregnant.
* STDImmunity: [[spoiler: At least four characters that we know of either have
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* TimeMarchesOn: New York City as depicted in this film has changed a lot since this movie was made. Major of New York Rudolph Giuliani, who was in charge from 1994 to 2001, oversaw a large clean-up of the city from crime, making the once crime-infested metropolis a lot safer in comparison.
* UnreliableNarrator: Telly is sometimes heard as a voiceover giving his opinions about sex and teenage life in general. Most of what he says is either incorrect, ignorant or claims that can't be verified. For instance: how can he be so sure that all his sex partners are virgins? [[spoiler: This also blows up in his face hard as it turns out that he did contract HIV anyway]]
* VillainProtagonist:TellyTelly, who is everything you don't want your child to be.
* UnreliableNarrator: Telly is sometimes heard as a voiceover giving his opinions about sex and teenage life in general. Most of what he says is either incorrect, ignorant or claims that can't be verified. For instance: how can he be so sure that all his sex partners are virgins? [[spoiler: This also blows up in his face hard as it turns out that he did contract HIV anyway]]
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The film was extremely controversial for its frank, unabashed depiction of teen sexuality, deliquency and drug use, landing it an NC-17 rating. It is notable for using untrained actors actually recruited from the street (this was Sevigny and Dawson's debut). Critical reception of it was mixed; mixed, with some calling it "a wakeup call to America's youth" and others decrying as nothing more than a glorified [[ExploitationFilm exploitation film]] bordering on child porn. Such is the case with all of Larry Clark's films.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Some people think the movie is a documentary, and give Leo Fitzpatrick (Telly) shit for it.
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Leo Fitzpatrick and Justin Pierce star as Telly and Casper, two New York teenagers of around 17. [[KidAnova Telly's mission in life is to deflower virgins, referring to himself as the "virgin surgeon"]]. His latest sexual conquest has been Jennie (Creator/ChloeSevigny). The film charts a day in Telly and Casper's lives, as they go about their daily activities of [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy using black slang]], smoking pot, shoplifting, beating up a passerby who crosses them in the park, and attending midnight raves, whilst Jennie and her friend Ruby (RosarioDawson) attempt to track them down and give Telly some information of life-and-death importance.
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Leo Fitzpatrick and Justin Pierce star as Telly and Casper, two New York teenagers of around 17. [[KidAnova Telly's mission in life is to deflower virgins, referring to himself as the "virgin surgeon"]]. His latest sexual conquest has been Jennie (Creator/ChloeSevigny). The film charts a day in Telly and Casper's lives, as they go about their daily activities of [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy using black slang]], smoking pot, shoplifting, beating up a passerby who crosses them in the park, and attending midnight raves, whilst Jennie and her friend Ruby (RosarioDawson) (Creator/RosarioDawson) attempt to track them down and give Telly some information of life-and-death importance.
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Leo Fitzpatrick and Justin Pierce star as Telly and Casper, two New York teenagers of around 17. [[KidAnova Telly's mission in life is to deflower virgins, referring to himself as the "virgin surgeon"]]. His latest sexual conquest has been Jennie (ChloeSevigny).(Creator/ChloeSevigny). The film charts a day in Telly and Casper's lives, as they go about their daily activities of [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy using black slang]], smoking pot, shoplifting, beating up a passerby who crosses them in the park, and attending midnight raves, whilst Jennie and her friend Ruby (RosarioDawson) attempt to track them down and give Telly some information of life-and-death importance.
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'''''Kids''''' is a 1995 Drama film directed by Larry Clark.
Leo Fitzpatrick and Justin Pierce star as Telly and Casper, two New York teenagers of around 17. [[KidAnova Telly's mission in life is to deflower virgins, referring to himself as the "virgin surgeon"]]. His latest sexual conquest has been Jennie (ChloeSevigny). The film charts a day in Telly and Casper's lives, as they go about their daily activities of [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy using black slang]], smoking pot, shoplifting, beating up a passerby who crosses them in the park, and attending midnight raves, whilst Jennie and her friend Ruby (RosarioDawson) attempt to track them down and give Telly some information of life-and-death importance.
The film was extremely controversial for its frank, unabashed depiction of teen sexuality, deliquency and drug use, landing it an NC-17 rating. It is notable for using untrained actors actually recruited from the street (this was Sevigny and Dawson's debut). Critical reception of it was mixed; with some calling it "a wakeup call to America's youth" and others decrying as nothing more than a glorified [[ExploitationFilm exploitation film]] bordering on child porn. Such is the case with all of Larry Clark's films.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AdultsAreUseless: It's not that the parents don't care, it's just that they are completely clueless.
* BigApplesauce
* ClusterFBomb: About 90% of the dialogue in this movie consists of profanity.
* CurbStompBattle: The skateboard scene in the park.
* DeathBySex: Not before the end of the movie, but eventually.
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: In the next-to-last scene, a girl is raped while unconscious.
* DrugsAreBad
* GoodBadGirl: Ruby's extensive resume of sexual experience is actually kind of astonishing, but she's really a very sweet girl.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Telly and Casper.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Some people think the movie is a documentary, and give Leo Fitzpatrick (Telly) shit for it.
* InstantSeduction: Occurs not once, but twice, the first time involving Telly talking a young virgin into having sex in literally a minute and a half.
* {{Irony}}: Quite a bit.
** Ruby ''really'' gets around, but it's [[spoiler:Jennie]] that turns up HIV-positive.
** See LaserGuidedKarma for what happens to the rapist.
** Among Telly's stupid ideas about virgins, he particularly cherishes the idea that the girl will remember him for the rest of her life. Cut to Ruby telling a bunch of giggling girls that she can't even remember the ''name'' of her first. About Telly himself, Jennie states flat out that "It wasn't that he took my virginity. It was that he never spoke to me again!"
* KidAnova: Telly.
* LaserGuidedKarma: The rapist probably contracted HIV.
* NatureAdoresAVirgin: Telly is ''obsessed'' with the allure of virgins and virginity.
* ParentalAbandonment: The kids' parents are hardly seen or mentioned.
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy
* RapeAsDrama: A more complicated version. The victim is an AIDS victim. The subtext would tend to indicate the victim is much more concerned for the rapist.
* ReallyGetsAround: Telly and Ruby.
* SexIsEvil: It's not exactly clear if the characters have sex because they're evil, or if they're evil because they have sex, but there's a definite correlation in there somewhere.
* TeensAreMonsters: Well duh. It's a Larry Clark film.
* VillainProtagonist: Telly
* WildTeenParty: The climax takes place at one of these.
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'''''Kids''''' is a 1995 Drama film directed by Larry Clark.
Leo Fitzpatrick and Justin Pierce star as Telly and Casper, two New York teenagers of around 17. [[KidAnova Telly's mission in life is to deflower virgins, referring to himself as the "virgin surgeon"]]. His latest sexual conquest has been Jennie (ChloeSevigny). The film charts a day in Telly and Casper's lives, as they go about their daily activities of [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy using black slang]], smoking pot, shoplifting, beating up a passerby who crosses them in the park, and attending midnight raves, whilst Jennie and her friend Ruby (RosarioDawson) attempt to track them down and give Telly some information of life-and-death importance.
The film was extremely controversial for its frank, unabashed depiction of teen sexuality, deliquency and drug use, landing it an NC-17 rating. It is notable for using untrained actors actually recruited from the street (this was Sevigny and Dawson's debut). Critical reception of it was mixed; with some calling it "a wakeup call to America's youth" and others decrying as nothing more than a glorified [[ExploitationFilm exploitation film]] bordering on child porn. Such is the case with all of Larry Clark's films.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AdultsAreUseless: It's not that the parents don't care, it's just that they are completely clueless.
* BigApplesauce
* ClusterFBomb: About 90% of the dialogue in this movie consists of profanity.
* CurbStompBattle: The skateboard scene in the park.
* DeathBySex: Not before the end of the movie, but eventually.
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: In the next-to-last scene, a girl is raped while unconscious.
* DrugsAreBad
* GoodBadGirl: Ruby's extensive resume of sexual experience is actually kind of astonishing, but she's really a very sweet girl.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Telly and Casper.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Some people think the movie is a documentary, and give Leo Fitzpatrick (Telly) shit for it.
* InstantSeduction: Occurs not once, but twice, the first time involving Telly talking a young virgin into having sex in literally a minute and a half.
* {{Irony}}: Quite a bit.
** Ruby ''really'' gets around, but it's [[spoiler:Jennie]] that turns up HIV-positive.
** See LaserGuidedKarma for what happens to the rapist.
** Among Telly's stupid ideas about virgins, he particularly cherishes the idea that the girl will remember him for the rest of her life. Cut to Ruby telling a bunch of giggling girls that she can't even remember the ''name'' of her first. About Telly himself, Jennie states flat out that "It wasn't that he took my virginity. It was that he never spoke to me again!"
* KidAnova: Telly.
* LaserGuidedKarma: The rapist probably contracted HIV.
* NatureAdoresAVirgin: Telly is ''obsessed'' with the allure of virgins and virginity.
* ParentalAbandonment: The kids' parents are hardly seen or mentioned.
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy
* RapeAsDrama: A more complicated version. The victim is an AIDS victim. The subtext would tend to indicate the victim is much more concerned for the rapist.
* ReallyGetsAround: Telly and Ruby.
* SexIsEvil: It's not exactly clear if the characters have sex because they're evil, or if they're evil because they have sex, but there's a definite correlation in there somewhere.
* TeensAreMonsters: Well duh. It's a Larry Clark film.
* VillainProtagonist: Telly
* WildTeenParty: The climax takes place at one of these.
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