It was shot on 16mm, which is why it looks like film but not quite. Digital in '95 was too low-res for the image you see. I don't even think they had 24fps digital cameras back then.

Just saw a 2 hour and 45 minute documentary on homeless teens in Portland and a guy who tries to save them somehow. That documentary crushes the F-ing f out of this movie. I've seen kids over twenty times. The doc is so much sicker because real life has more guts. Good movie tough, for when I saw the thing,, a bunch of times, when I was 15.

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The irony is that if you’re 16 I think it should be required watching.

It feels very strange that I like this movie so much. I saw it when I was 6 with my uncle, but watched again at 16 and I was jaw dropped, it's a Classic

kids was a great movie i thought it was a masterpiece

Hello. Someone corrected me in the comment section, it was shot in 16mm. Thank you for your correction.

My friend from school was in the movies kids !!!!!!!! He was the guy that was kissing the 3 chicks at the rave !!!!! !!! Miss the 90s

I literally just watched it today 😂😂😂😂 I'm at a loss for words

i watched this movie the other night. i’m pretty desensitized to basically everything but this movie did make my jaw drop. some of it is highly inaccurate (the sleeping with 12 year olds, and the racism mainly since today that’s unacceptable and majority would agree, or minor access to clubbing) and i feel as though i’ve heard a lot more people glamorizing this movie and completely ignoring jennie’s sexual assault by saying casper is one of the most likable characters & skimming over jennie & what he did to her which really makes me upset that was the part where i didn’t even finish the movie lol, also him using racial slurs did not feel necessary at all?? not to mention those who claimed they wanted to live this tragic lifestyle. the soundtrack for the movie is really good and the only thing i enjoyed about it. i have met a few people in person who are like this with virgin fetishization. stds are actually alot more common among youth than some may think i knew a girl who slept around and eventually caught chalymida. i can admire some aspects of how real this movie is and i think for it’s time it seemed kinda educational movie (due to aids being a practical death sentence during the 80s - 90s as well as the stigma being only lgbt catch the disease) depending on what light teens are able to look at it from i can’t help but to hate this movie & think of it kinda fondly at the same time the characters are sooo unlikable but i guess that’s how they’re meant to be presented the people who wrote the movie are my main cons about it larry clark a 40 year old ex addict seeking younger addicts and paying their way with marijuana doesn’t sit right with me at all, them demanding certain cast members to get more touchy make it more real is really gross, the writer also exploiting his LITERAL FRIENDS who gave him a place to crash is also disturbing. he comes off as super narcissistic even though he’s only really known for this movie due to the shocking nature of it. he claims he’s film gold because he got one compliment from a teacher in highschool and only credits himself when interviewed they really didn’t need actual minors for this movie REAL kids picked off the street to play these parts: the florida project for example didn’t use many minors and didn’t expose them to horrid situations such as this overall you did great review you have a very calming voice lol it’s nice to see someone script things on paper as well :) i’m sorry for the long comment but keep it up!!

I snuck into the movie theater.. me and my highschool friends, afterwords we were like dam that was crazy

Them kids was crazy but I watch it I glad I wasn’t out of control like those kids…

Shot on 16mm film, def not digital. Unless you’re talking about the vignettes of skate footage or inserts shot on a camcorder

Ever seen the doc "Streetwise," about the homeless kids in Seattle? Or "Pixote" from Brazil? Or "The 400 Blows"? There were previous movies about kids that were not suitable for kids to watch. Especially Pixote. It features a kid being gang raped, and a teen having sex with an older prostitute while younger kids watch.

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Harmony korin overhyped…..??????ts i think you don’t know what you talking about!!!

Not Flea It's Roach

I think i tried watching it as a kid but it was too much for me to grasp.

I have some thought about this movie in no particular order. I know that Larry Clark is super creepy, but I believe Harmony Korine also has some pedo tendencies because his other movies including Ken Park (which he wrote when he was 30) also has underage sex. Ken Park is unwatchable, the sex scenes are sickening. Also Another Day in Paradise has an underage sex scene, Larry Clark has a pattern... I remember when the movie came out (I was in my teens) and lots of kids that I knew, mainly skateboarding crowd, loved it and thought the characters in the movie were so cool. I personally hated it, I hated the heartlessness of it all. I thought they were all dicks. Casper is absolute cringe with the way he talks and moves with his fake swagger, using the N word. There's a documentary called We Once Were Kind where some of the people who were in the movie talk about how they were exploited and the negative effect ti had on their lives. I also never got the 'wake-up call to adults' thing. I honestly don't think most kids my age (at the time) behaved like that. HIV was not a big issue. The sex and drugs, maybe. But it wasn't as out of control as it was in the movie, even the actors said that it was really exaggerated. The sexual dialogue being spoken up underage actors is also really uncomfortable. Like the girl talking about being 14 and having sex with an 18 year old (yeah, that's r*pe) so casually. In my friend group, if a 17 year old boy was having sex with 12 year olds he would have been ostracised at the very least. Probably would have been beaten up. His behaviour was not realistic for kids back in the 90s. Sure there were boys who were straight up perverts, but not predatory borderline pedos. I also feel that the racial dynamics were not addressed. And I'm glad that the documentary spoke about this. The Black characters/ actors were coming from poverty, racial trauma and the movie showed the end result of this without addressing the underlying issues. I kind of hate that the Black characters are lumped in with the heartlessness of the movie. The white characters were just straight up sociopathic assholes. I watched the documentary and it's upsetting how the minor 'actors' were exploited, like encouraging them to act in sexual scenes, drugs on set with minors, a rape scene next to a sleeping 12 year old. And the scene where they beat the Black man is so disturbing and just looks so racist, especially as it was written by a white kid. I hate that sene so much. At the end when the white kid holds him up while another white kid beats him with the skateboard was so unnecessary and brutal. Getting Harold Hunter to expose himself to the girls, some were underage, asking them if they 'Ever seen a Black mans' lasso'. What the fuck. So yeah, now that I'm older, watching Kids is super uncomfortable for all the teenage sex. It also seems super 'try-hard' and moralistic and not as 'cool' as it likes to think it is.

One of the worst films ever made