This is a controversial look at teenage life in New York City by Larry Clark. Written by Harmony Korine (director of Gummo), it focuses on two skateboarders, Telly and Casper. Telly boasts about how he likes to have sex with virgins. "There's nothing better than deflowering young women", he tells us. Casper doesn't say as much, he'd much rather steal beer from liquor stores and savagely beat up a man in a park for getting in his way. Most of the characters take drugs and talk about sex. The other main character is Jennie (Chloe Sevigny of Boys Don't Cry, Gummo & American Psycho). She has a blood test and finds she is HIV positive - but she has only slept with one guy, Telly. It's a depressing film, but it is a worthwhile look at the problems of drugs and promiscuity of young people in the Big Apple. Worth a look, but it's not a film you'll be watching many times.
