About Me
The movie "Kids" was the first movie made by Larry Clark and Harmony Korine.Kids follows a group young, unsupervised, not mature, but all-too-grown-up kids in New York. One girl has just been diagnosed with HIV and is trying to notify the boy who gave it to her, who is on a quest to sexually prey upon innocent girls. The film follows these characters and their friends through the day, hanging out, playing, carousing, and going to parties. Each scene is intriguing and disturbing -- conveying an urban reality that includes drugs, sex, guns, and disease; and yet never letting you forget these are *kids*, some of them barely in puberty.
The script was written by 18 year old Harmony Korine in 1993. He later teamed up with Larry Clark to make the movie. The "kids" cast in the movie were found threw out New York. Leo Fitzpatrick was the first to be cast. He was found cursing at his skateboard because he couldn't get a move right. Rosario Dawson was found sitting on her front porch. The film was shot in a six-week period in the summer of 1994, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in France in May 1995, and was released worldwide in July 1995.
