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  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Factory 25
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Factory 25
  • 1 h 23 m
Kid-Thing

Summary In the outskirts of Austin, the days of 10 year-old Annie are filled with solitary mischief. Annie has no friends her age; her father, a goat farmer-cum-demolition derby driver, does little parenting. Playing in the woods one day, she hears a plaintive call for help from a woman in an abandoned well. Though Annie feels driven to visit th...

Directed By: David Zellner

Written By: David Zellner

  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Factory 25
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Factory 25
  • 1 h 23 m

Kid-Thing

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary In the outskirts of Austin, the days of 10 year-old Annie are filled with solitary mischief. Annie has no friends her age; her father, a goat farmer-cum-demolition derby driver, does little parenting. Playing in the woods one day, she hears a plaintive call for help from a woman in an abandoned well. Though Annie feels driven to visit th...

Directed By: David Zellner

Written By: David Zellner

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
58
29% Positive
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71% Mixed
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Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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29% Positive
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71% Mixed
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70
Aug 7, 2013
Beneath the affectations, there’s poetry in Kid-Thing, and truth in its depiction of how absolute freedom can be a kind of trap.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 6, 2013
Spearheaded by phenomenal pint-sized lead Sydney Aguirre, this challenging third feature from the Zellner Brothers retains much of their provocative trademark idiocy but navigates darker waters.
By Ronnie Scheib FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 19, 2013
Kid-Thing proves as disturbing for what it is as for what it's not.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW
60
Aug 6, 2013
Aguirre is a find—she has none of the precociousness of the typical screen tween—but the movie’s magical-realist elements don’t jibe with the unstudied naturalism of her performance.
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60
Aug 6, 2013
The film is, if nothing else, an interesting meditation on how a child who grows up without guidance might react to a situation that requires judgment.
By Neil Genzlinger FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 8, 2013
Its main character's moral predicament with a woman inside a pit becomes a muddle of confused symbolism and trite psychoanalysis.
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50
Aug 6, 2013
The film's slender conceit is given some weight by its 11-year-old leading lady Sydney Aguirre, whose portrait of a flinty, instinctively mischievous tomboy growing up without benefit of parental guidance provides gratification even when there's not much going on.
By Todd McCarthy FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Zellner Bros.
Release Date Aug 7, 2013
Duration 1 h 23 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.kid-thing.com/
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Awards

Gen Art Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Edinburgh International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Village Voice Film Poll
• 1 Nomination

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