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Features: DVD, Unrated
Based on a true story. Acclaimed director Larry Clark delivers his most powerful film since Kids. Marty (Brad Renfro) is a tormented surfer who relies on his longtime pal Bobby (Nick Stahl) for rides to the beach and South Florida bars despite vicious abuse. But when Bobby turns his unwanted attention to Marty's new girlfriend Lisa (Rachel Miner) and her best friend Ally (Bijou Phillips), Lisa decides Bobby's reign of terror must end. Assembling a crew of alienated suburban teens, she forms a deadly plan to get Bobby out of the way once and for all. As the conspiracy unfolds, friends turn into enemies and casual acquaintances become co-defendants to a murder that rocked America to its core.
"Two thumbs way up!" Ebert & Roeper And The Movies
"Powerful." Jamie Malonowski, New York Times
"Ferocious! One of the best films of the summer!" David Ansen, Newsweek
Editor's Note
Bobby Kent (Nick Stahl) is not a nice guy. He beats up his "best friend" Marty every chance he gets, he abuses Marty's girlfriend Lisa, and he rapes Lisa's friend Ali. From director Larry Clark (KIDS) and screenwriter David McKenna (AMERICAN HISTORY X) comes this gruelling thriller based on the true story of Bobby Kent, a bossy Florida teenager who was beaten to death by a group of his peers.There isn't a lot to do in the suburban Florida town that Bobby and his "friends" inhabit. They play violent shoot-em-up video games, they work at the Pizza Hut, they go surfing at the beach, and they cruise in their hot rods. But mostly, Bobby and his friends have lots of sex. The film is drenched in graphic shots of barely legal naked teenagers. (This has been Clark's favorite subject matter since his days as a photographer, as illustrated in his 1997 book TEENAGE LUST.) Sexual identity is an undercurrent in Bobby's story: he watches gay porn while he rapes Ali, and he forces Marty to dance with him at a gay club. Some of the other teenagers think that Bobby and Marty are a couple. But this is a minor issue. They decide to kill Bobby because he's a bully who has hurt and angered them; and because they're bored and desensitized to violence. In BULLY, Clark provides another hard look at the hard lives of American teenagers, in all their confusion. It isn't pretty.
| Features | Trailer | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Access | | Commentary By Director Larry Clark | | Cast & Crew Interviews | | Isolated Music Track | | Widescreen Version | | Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 | | Subtitles: English, Spanish, French |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Trimark |
| Release Date: 1/22/2002 |
| Running Time: 112 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2001 | | Catalog ID: 7893-D | | UPC: 00031398789321 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
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| | Professional Reviews | Hollywood Reporter
"...Tautly made....The acting is hypnotically good....A well-recruited cast gives the film a sense of trapped lives..." 07/10/2001 p.16-50New York Times
"...[Clark] has assembled a talented and uninhibited cast -- Michael Pitt is especially good and surprisingly funny..." 07/13/2001 p.E10 Film Comment
"...[BULLY is] abundant in visual times; at times, one wonders if Clark might have been poring over prints of Techine's WILD REEDS or Bruno Dumont's LIFE OF JESUS..." 07/01/2001 p.73 Total Film
"...[A] gripping, intelligent film..." 04/01/2002 p.101 Chicago Sun-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..." 07/20/2001 p.37 USA Today
"...It's filmed with passion and with a courage of convictions that mainstream studio releases have just about abandoned. Rachel Miner is a standout..." 01/25/2002 p.14D Sight and Sound
"...A truly disturbing modern tragedy unfolds..." 12/01/2002 p.63 Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
...Bully calls the bluff of movies that pretend to be about murder but are really about entertainment. His film has all the sadness and shabbiness, all the mess and cruelty and thoughtless stupidity of the real thing... Clark is not some objectified, outside adult observer making an after-school special, but an artist who has made a leap into this teenage mindscape. - Roger Ebert
San Francisco Chronicle 7 of 10
...low-down, but-level moviemaking... Clark has found a new way to be creepy, which isn't easy. In the process he has created something irresistibly watchable, the kind of original piece that might mean less but reveal more than its creator intended. - Mick LaSalle
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4 of 5 White 'burb teens Saturday, March 08, 2003
cinemafstop from Omaha, NE
Today's parents are drunk with consumerism. Buying a track house on the ever expanding new edge of town, a SUV, Playstation, and 300 channels of cable doesn't make you a good parent. This film is honest, yet graphic and sometimes hard to watch. The young characters are of this lot. Devoid of moral authority, culture, and goals...the teens dive into slacker-hood. With the overwhelming desire to feel and be anything they fill the void with violent sex, drugs, TRYING to get pregnant, and in the true story of the film plan a murder. Hanging out in stripmalls bored with your car? Is that not your teen child? Watch this film. It is no wonder we have all the sex, guns and drugs in the suburban schools. Was this review helpful?  
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