First off, love the movie. Found it to be an accurate representation of middle school, high school, and even college life. Best of all, by using kids they really capture how *beep* bizarre and pathetic these life styles are. I love the movie, and I think all kids should see it, but I don't get how they can legally show kids having sex in a movie. Aren't their laws against this sort of stuff?
shareYou realize they aren't really having sex, right?
shareIt's a movie ffs. It's acting.
shareall the people having sex in the movie are 18 and older. The girl that was supposedly 13 was actually 19. Plus no penetration. Rosario Dawson was only like 16, but she only talked about having sex.
shareLeo Fitzpatrick turned 17 in August, 1995, according to his birthday year. Considering this movie premiered at Sundance in January 1995, it must have been filmed before that, when he was still 16.
shareAll Leo did was pretend to have sex, yes in the film he is supposed to be having sex but in reality there was no actual penetration. If you do a nude scene you must be 17 and have your parents present or 18 and older. Two thirteen years old kids could have a scene in a film where they are supposed to be having sex and as long as there is no nudity it is perfectly legal.
shareI guess that makes sense, I'm still just enthralled at the rawness and realism of this movie.
shareThe movie is a true masterpiece. It was the first and perhaps only film to realistically capture teen life in the 90s. Only other films I have seen that have had a similar raw and real feel are the Brazilian films City of God and Elite Squad.
shareI love it so much. It's so messed up, yet feels so realistic.
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Ever seen Over The Edge?
shareIt's not like they're ACTUALLY having sex. You don't see any penetration at all in the film. It's all acting. But I can see your point with executing this type of content with real teens and how there wasn't some studio attempt to stifle the project. But it really is just Larry going into the youthful world of 94 with Harmony taking him from point A to point B. Truly a very, VERY effective movie that represents the raw reality of not just kids being sexually active, but kids unknowingly catching STDs and how inconsequential they thought the risk was, that is, until they got it themselves.
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