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Bully, based on a true story, sees Larry Clark return to the violent and disturbing underworld previously documented in his controversial and provocative 1995 debut Kids. A couple of good-looking small town teenage slackers, Bobby and Marty, have known each other forever. They work dead end jobs, do drugs and hustle cash by .. Read more

Starring Brad Renfro, Nick Stahl, Rachel Miner, Bijou Phillips
Director Larry Clark
Genres Drama

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Bully

Bully, based on a true story, sees Larry Clark return to the violent and disturbing underworld previously documented in his controversial and provocative 1995 debut Kids. A couple of good-looking small town teenage slackers, Bobby and Marty, have known each other forever. They work dead end jobs, do drugs and hustle cash by selling porno home videos and queer phone sex. The sadistic Bobby treats Marty like a toy, dominating him brutally and efficiently. It's how they have always been. They hook up with beautiful, spoiled Ali, and her awkward, vulnerable friend Lisa for a double date on the beach, where Ali is viciously humiliated by Bobby. Lisa falls in love with Marty, and Bobby feels his control slipping... things get ugly.

Starring Brad Renfro, Nick Stahl, Rachel Miner, Bijou Phillips, Leo Fitzpatrick, Michael Pitt, Kelli Garner
Director Larry Clark
Studio FILM 4
Run time DVD: 1 hr 47 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 18.gif
Genres Drama
Language English
Released DVD: 12 May 2008
Production year: 2001
Format DVD
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  • 4 stars out of 5

    Following the more tempered Another Day in Paradise, director Larry Clark steps back into the grit and grime of maximum shock cinema with this outstanding drama. Stylistically echoing his brutal yet dazzling debut feature kids, Clark unleashes a superbly shot movie that's not so much entertainment, as a stomach-churning life lesson. Based on the true story of a sadistic Florida teenager who was hideously murdered by the friends he victimised, the film presents a terrifying snapshot of alienated young America. Turning from powerful social commentary into an authentic horror movie as the nerve-shredding events unfold, this is an ultra-realistic portrayal of morally corrupt youth, illuminated by startling performances from the largely unknown cast. It's both tragic and painfully confrontational, but stands as an undiluted example of independent movie-making at its most vital and compulsive.

    • Radio Times
  • "...The movie is brilliantly and courageously well-acted by its young cast; it's one of those movies so perceptive and wounding that there's no place for the actors to hide, no cop out they can exercise..."

    • Chicago Sun
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  • 16 out of 17 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    How good is this film???

    It's brilliant. Not for everyone I must admit. It's for teenagers (older ones) in the mould of "Thirteen" but with more sex - so don't watch it with any under 15's. I found it to be so very very underated having only got it because of the title and because my 15 year old daughter is bullied at school. I have advised her not to follow the teenagers in this film though!

    It is very specialised though, and I consider myself a bit of a "young at heart" dad so if that's you get it out. If not, you'll hate it. What I would call a "Marmite" film then.

      • afcbaggy from Greater Manchester
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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    Based on a true store, although some parts are fictional, which makes this movie compelling since it's about a group of teenagers in small town USA who naively decide to kill of their 'friends'.

    The suspense really mounts up in this film as you are not sure if they will go ahead with it or not, and if they do how. It is also quite graphic and sexually explicit which some viewers may find disturbing. Overall the film is well made and quite realistic.

      • Stevo#4 from EDINBURGH
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