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- 2005
- PG-13
- Launchpad Releasing
- 1 h 31 m
- 2005
- PG-13
- Launchpad Releasing
- 1 h 31 m
Summary Based on real events, Kids In America is a teen comedy about a diverse group of high school kids who band together to peacefully kick their principal's ass. (Slowhand Releasing)
Directed By: Josh Stolberg
Written By: Andrew Shaifer, Josh Stolberg
- 2005
- PG-13
- Launchpad Releasing
- 1 h 31 m
- 2005
- PG-13
- Launchpad Releasing
- 1 h 31 m
Kids in America
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7.5
Summary Based on real events, Kids In America is a teen comedy about a diverse group of high school kids who band together to peacefully kick their principal's ass. (Slowhand Releasing)
Directed By: Josh Stolberg
Written By: Andrew Shaifer, Josh Stolberg
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
38
8% Positive
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1 Review
58% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
33% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
38
8% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
58% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
33% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Once in a blue moon a movie escapes the shackles of its genre and does what it really wants to do. Kids in America is a movie like that. It breaks out of Hollywood jail.
Because Kids in America can't decide whether it wants to be a stock teenage comedy or something more, it ends up stranded in the middle of nowhere.
Josh Stolberg launches a scalding attack on the stodgy conservatism of the American public school system, only to end up stacking the deck in egregiously smirky and simple-minded ways.
Has its heart in the right place, but its head seems to be lost in a swirling maelstrom of teen movies that have come before.
Nicole Richie loyalists are sure to be confounded (along with the rest of us) by Kids in America, the weirdly anti-Bush high school "satire" that is also Richie's big-screen debut.
Filmmaker Josh Stolberg claims to have been inspired by real-life events, but mostly he ineptly rips off other movies and wastes a cast that includes Rosanna Arquette, Adam Arkin and Elizabeth Perkins.
Short on real teenage angst and emotion, the film is long on caricatures.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 User Ratings
7.5
67% Positive
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17% Mixed
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17% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 User Ratings
7.5
67% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
17% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
17% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
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Production Company
Kids in America LLC
Release Date Oct 21, 2005
Duration 1 h 31 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline High school will never be the same.
