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Kids (1995)

★ 6.9 · 1,279 ratings on TMDB

Shocking. Depraved. Sickening. And they're only Kids.

Kids poster★ 6.9

A group of bored, disaffected New York City teenagers spend a day skating, smoking, drinking, partying, deflowering virgins, and getting into fights.

DirectorLarry Clark
CastAtabey Rodriguez, Chloë Sevigny, Harold Hunter, Jon Abrahams, Justin Pierce, Leo Fitzpatrick
GenresCrime, Drama
The emergence reading

Kids keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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