Bully

Name: Bully
Genre: Documentary
Released: March 30, 2012
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 74

2012

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Weinstein Company, The | Release Date: March 30, 2012 | Not Rated

Summary: Bully follows five kids and families over the course of a school year. Stories include two families who have lost children to suicide and a mother awaiting the fate of her 14-year-old daughter who has been incarcerated after bringing a gun on her school bus. With an intimate glimpse into homes, classrooms, cafeterias and principals’Bully follows five kids and families over the course of a school year. Stories include two families who have lost children to suicide and a mother awaiting the fate of her 14-year-old daughter who has been incarcerated after bringing a gun on her school bus. With an intimate glimpse into homes, classrooms, cafeterias and principals’ offices, the film offers insight into the often cruel world of the lives of bullied children. As teachers, administrators, kids and parents struggle to find answers, Bully examines the dire consequences of bullying through the testimony of strong and courageous youth. Through the power of their stories, the film aims to be a catalyst for change in the way we deal with bullying as parents, teachers, children and society as a whole. (The Weinstein Company)… Expand

Director: Lee Hirsch

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 98 min

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A.O. Scott

Mar 29, 2012

Bully forces you to confront not the cruelty of specific children - who have their own problems, and their good sides as well - but rather the extent to which that cruelty is embedded in our schools and therefore in our society as a whole. Read full review

James Berardinelli

Mar 28, 2012

The purpose of Bully is to educate and promote discussion. If the problem is not solved, there will be more Columbines and additional stories like Tyler and Ty's. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Mar 28, 2012

As long as the MPAA is issuing its cavalier decrees, though, they're the ones acting like bullies. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Apr 11, 2012

Bully is a sincere documentary but not a great one. We feel sympathy for the victims, and their parents or friends, but the film helplessly seems to treat bullying as a problem without a solution. Read full review

Barbara VanDenburgh

Apr 14, 2012

It's true that the language in the film can be harsh -- but it's also very obvious that kids are hearing this kind of language in schools every day, much of it directed at them. Read full review

Sam Adams

Mar 28, 2012

There are many appalling moments witnessed and described in Lee Hirsch's documentary Bully: children beaten and humiliated, ostracized by their peers and misunderstood by their parents, left to face an apparently heartless world without a soul to turn to. Read full review

Kalvin Henely

Mar 27, 2012

Leaves us moved by poignant scenes of victims' shattered lives, but, for reasons unclear, keeps the bullies themselves largely out of our reach. Read full review

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MegWhiteley

Mar 30, 2012

Awesome documentary really. The development of the documental y really exactly. Bully is a demand for this actual problem that much kids live, and be a good pack.

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BHBarry

Apr 8, 2012