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The movie follows a group of teachers at a Mojave Desert high school, one of California's alternative schools for students at risk of dropping out, as they take an unconventional approach to improve the lives of their struggling students.
The movie follows a group of teachers at a Mojave Desert high school, one of California's alternative schools for students at risk of dropping out, as they take an unconventional approach to improve the lives of their struggling students.
Actors:
Vonda Viland, Jennifer, Joey, Lee
Genre:
Documentary
Director:
Keith Fulton ,
Louis Pepe
Keith Fulton
17 October 1965, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Louis Pepe
7 August 1966, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Country:
United States
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January 06, 2017
An affecting and enlightening documentary, The Bad Kids offers a fly-on-the-wall look at efforts to help students graduate high school despite their personal struggles and looming sense of hopelessness.
December 20, 2016
Bolstered by a confident fly-on-the-wall aesthetic and a suitably somber score by Michael Jacaszek, Fulton and Pepe locate both heartbreak and hope in their intertwined tales of people fighting to gain control of their (and others') lives.
December 16, 2016
Mounted in a serviceable but undistinguished verité manner that eschews talking heads, explanatory titles and other means of conveying information.
December 22, 2016
Desert flowers can be hard to spot, but are often distinctly beautiful, and The Bad Kids has them in focus.
December 15, 2016
The vérité approach in "The Bad Kids" gives viewers insight into a timely issue by literally putting a face on it.
December 20, 2016
Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's documentary raises important questions about the limits of pedagogy.
December 20, 2016
Determined teachers fight long odds in The Bad Kids, a slice-of-life documentary of the struggles in a high school for at-risk youth in California's Mojave Desert.
December 22, 2016
Students on the brink of disaster are the subject of this admirably heartfelt and uncondescending documentary.
December 28, 2016
Formulaic, but uplifting and inspiring
April 22, 2016
Sombre yet powerful.
December 20, 2016
An insightful, affecting film that casts sympathetic light on a neglected educational sector.
December 15, 2016
One of the major points The Bad Kids makes is that most "problem students" have common struggles that could be managed with the individualized attention that big public high schools can't provide.
