Bully
A pack of naive teenagers conspire to murder a mutual friend, whose aggressive demeanor has proved too much.
17 May 1985, Florida, USA
19 January 1943, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
1 April 1980, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
10 August 1978, Orange, New Jersey, USA
15 May 1982, Miami, Florida, USA
9 October 1957, New York, New York, USA
1 November 1986, USA
27 April 1947, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
11 April 1984, Bakersfield, California, USA
July 10 in Sodus, New York, USA
25 July 1982, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
29 July 1980, New York City, New York, USA
9 May 1978, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York, USA
May 10, 2006
Clark is not a moralist, which is good, but he is not much of a dramatist either. You get the impression that the fascination with youth in his movies, just like in his photos, provides an excuse for voyeurism.
September 06, 2001
Closer to teen pornography than to teen tragedy.
August 02, 2001
Attention must be paid, because this story of middle-class suburban teens who murder one of their own is all true.
March 07, 2004
A bit long and repetitive.
July 19, 2009
...an exploitation teen movie in the pejorative sense of the word.
September 14, 2001
The moral wasteland of suburban youth has been examined, earlier and better, in The River's Edge. Clark's leering leads nowhere: In Bully, he has nothing new to say, and, in the end, no real point to make.
August 17, 2001
Clark's probing camera leers, but it also reflects truth, providing visions of a hard reality most of us would be unable to comprehend and unwilling to face.
April 29, 2009
Much too concerned with flashing nude scenes of its barely legal cast to make a point or unfold a story.
February 13, 2003
'Bully' demands attention for the way in which it forces us to watch and digest a dark slice of American society. American beauty this ain't.
August 09, 2001
Exposes us to the true horror of what's going on in these kids' lives.
October 16, 2003
An extremely disturbing tale of escalating peer pressure.
August 17, 2001
Neither killers nor victim are drawn from life, just from lurid teen-exploitation pictures past.
