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Bully
- Director: Lee Hirsch
- Writer: Lee Hirsch; Cynthia Lowen
- Producer: Lee Hirsch; Cynthia Lowen
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Some kids fit in...some don't.
Did you fit in? Yes...for those that didn't, did you ever spare a thought for them? No.
This is what religion has done...this is what bad parenting does...this is what seriously and worryingly incompetent teachers do...
The film does nothing to address the cause(s) - it's a series of heartbreaking stories...haphazardly put together and, in places, ridiculously staged.
There's no accountability displayed...the girl who held 22 kids at gunpoint with her mother's gun...how the hell did she get hold of the gun in the first place??? The mother is released from any kind of blame!
On a technical note, Hirsch should leave the cinematography to someone more able...the constant in-focus/out-of-focus is amateur and dismally distracting.
A serious, worthwhile subject...however, an impotent, ineffectual film.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
This year, over 13 million American kids will be bullied at school, online, on the bus, at home, through their cell phones and on the streets of their towns, making it the most common form of violence young people in this country experience. BULLY is the first feature documentary film to show how we've all been affected by bullying, whether we've been victims, perpetrators or stood silent witness. The world we inhabit as adults begins on the playground. BULLY opens on the first day of school. For the more than 13 million kids who'll be bullied this year in the United States, it's a day filled with more anxiety and foreboding than excitement. As the sun rises and school busses across the country overflow with backpacks, brass instruments and the rambunctious sounds of raging hormones, this is a ride into the unknown.
Cast & Characters
Alex as Himself;
Ja'Maya as Herself;
Kelby as Herself;
David Long as Himself;
Tina Long as Herself;
Kirk Smalley as Himself