Actor Tim Roth introduces Larry Clark's directorial debut, a documentary-style portrayal of teenage life in New York exposing controversial and deeply disturbing issues surrounding sex, alcohol and violence.
Leo Fitzpatrick plays Telly, whose only concession to safe sex is to have intercourse with virgins, even after he discovers that one of the girls from his past, Jennie, tests positive for HIV.
Clark's desire to make the "great American teenage movie" led him to collaborate with a then-18-year-old skateboarder, Harmony Korine, on this no-holds-barred portrait of American youth.
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