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A group of bored, disaffected New York City teenagers spend a day skating, smoking, drinking, partying, deflowering virgins, and getting into fights.
1995 · Directed by Larry Clark · 91 min · Drama · Crime · Screenplay in the scene database · 19 frames
Tagline
Shocking. Depraved. Sickening. And they're only Kids.
Plot
Telly and a 12-year-old girl are making out on a bed. With no adults around, Telly, who is a scrawny 16-year-old, talks with the girl, a virgin, and they have sex. Afterwards, he meets his best friend, Casper, and they talk about his sexual experience. Telly has taken to only having sex with virgins. They then enter a local store, where Casper shoplifts a 40 oz bottle of malt liquor and on the way out Casper steals two peaches from a Korean fruit vendor. Looking for drugs, food, and a place to hang out, they head to their friend Paul's apartment despite disliking him. As Telly and Casper sit down, they watch skaters on the TV and Casper does a whippet. As time goes on, they join the other boys in boasting about their sexual prowess and nonchalant attitudes to unprotected sex and venereal diseases.
Across the city, a group of girls is talking about sex. Their attitudes contrast with those of the boys on many topics, particularly fellatio and the significance of the individuals to whom they lost their virginity. During one conversation the boys are talking about how they don't use condoms and another boy says that there is no such thing as AIDS and HIV. Two of the girls, Ruby and Jennie, mention that they were recently tested for STDs: Ruby tests negative, even though she has had multiple sexual encounters; Jennie tests positive for HIV. She tells the nurse that she has had sex only once, with Telly. Distraught, she tries to find him to prevent him from passing HIV on to another girl. Meanwhile, Telly and Casper walk to Telly's house and steal money from his mother.
After purchasing marijuana from a Rastafarian drug dealer, they gather with a few friends and, together, taunt a gay couple passing by. As Casper rides on a skateboard, he carelessly bumps into a man who angrily threatens and pushes him. The man is struck in the back of the head with a skateboard by Casper's friend Harold, causing him to collapse. Several other skaters join in, beating the man until he is rendered unconscious by a final blow to the head by Casper. Jennie is then seen in a cab and the taxi driver gives her advice on how to be happy.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Harmony Korine
- Cinematography: Eric Alan Edwards
- Edited by: Christopher Tellefsen
- Music: Lou Barlow, John Davis
- Production design: Kevin Thompson
- Produced by: Cary Woods
Cast
- Leo Fitzpatrick as Telly
- Justin Pierce as Casper
- Chloë Sevigny as Jennie
- Rosario Dawson as Ruby
- Yakira Peguero as Darcy
- Atabey Rodriguez as Misha
- Harold Hunter as Harold
- Jon Abrahams as Steven
- Sajan Bhagat as Paul
- Sarah Henderson as Girl #1
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: The Guys Upstairs, Independent Pictures
- Budget: $1,500,000
- Box office: $20,412,216
- Themes: puberty, first time, new york city, drug abuse, coming of age, hiv, juvenile delinquent, shoplifting, underage sex, sexually transmitted disease
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