Kids (1995)

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Love the Hard Way

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Rating: NC-17

Release Date: Jul 28, 1995

Running Time: 90 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, Chloë Sevigny, Sarah Henderson, Rosario Dawson, Harold Hunter, Yakira Peguero, Joseph Knofelmacher, Joseph Chan, Jonathan S Kim

director: Larry Clark

Telly, a coarse 17-year-old skateboard enthusiast, lives only to get laid. As Telly discourses nonstop on the pleasures of deflowering 14-year-old girls, he and his best friend Casper tool around New York City's East Side, steal, smoke dope, and eventually make their way to an all-night party, at which Telly bags another virgin and Casper gives up his humanity altogether. While all this is going on, one of Telly's past victims, now HIV-positive, forlornly searches for her lover.

December 8, 2000

Like a million movies before it, Kids starts with a kiss. But none quite like this graphic game of tonsil hockey. The boy, Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick), is 17 and eager for a more intimate exchange of bodily fluids. "Know what I want?" he asks the girl (Sarah Henderson), about 14 to judge by her looks and the stuffed animals in her bedroom. "Yeah," she says. "You wanna fuck me." The girl is a virgin, scared ("I don't want a baby") and pitifully susceptible to sweet talk, of which the skinny,…