Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Bully (2012)

Director: Lee Hirsch
Run Time: 99 min.

"Bully is a wrenching, potentially transformative look at an epidemic of adolescent cruelty and adult paralysis in the nation's public schools. . . . Bully weaves together five stories from different parts of America's heartland. Two are about the grieving families of boys who've committed suicide—a 17-year-old in Georgia, an 11-year-old in Oklahoma City. The rest are profiles of kids still toughing it out—a Mississippi teenager who has been jailed after pulling a gun on the kids who made her life a living hell, a lesbian Oklahoma high-schooler who is tormented not just by other students but by her teachers as well."
—Bob Mondello, NPR