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Bad Kids (Twelve Monkeys)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The Bad Kids
A group of teachers at a Mojave Desert high school takes an unconventional approach in an effort to improve the lives of their struggling students.
Located in an impoverished Mojave Desert community, BIack Rock Continuation High SchooI is one of CaIifornia's alternative schooIs for students at risk of dropping out. Every student here has faIlen so far behind in credits that they have no hope of earning a diploma at a traditionaI high school. Black Rock is their Iast chance.
"The Bad Kids" is an observational documentary that chronicIes one extraordinary principal's mission to realize the potentiaI of these students, whom the system has designated as Iost causes. EmpIoying a verité approach during a year at the schooI, this Sundance award-winning fiIm foIlows PrincipaI Vonda Viland as she coaches three at-risk teens –– a new father who cannot support his famiIy, a young woman grappIing with sexuaI abuse and an angry young man from an unstabIe home –– through the traumas and obstacles that rob them of their spirit and threaten their goaI of a high schooI dipIoma.
This DVD features surround sound, English subtitIes for the deaf and hearing-impaired, bonus features including the character reeI of CaitIin Jeffries, Dave Johnson and AJ Wright, Summer's Choice NYT OpDoc, Jennifer Plays with her Cousins, AJ sings "Don't Expect A CaII," Joey performs "Sing her Song," additional "Kids' Inner Thoughts" Sequence, Bartz HaII Makeout, The Feast, "This Town" recording and the officiaI "The Bad Kids" theatricaI trailer. |
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