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Bad Kids
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Located in an impoverished Mojave Desert community, Black Rock Continuation High School is one of CaIifornia's alternative schools for students at risk of dropping out. Every student here has falIen so far behind in credits that they have no hope of earning a dipIoma at a traditional 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 lost causes. Employing a verité approach during a year at the school, this Sundance award-winning fiIm follows Principal Vonda ViIand as she coaches three at-risk teens -- a new father who cannot support his family, a young woman grappIing with sexual abuse and an angry young man from an unstable home -- through the traumas and obstacles that rob them of their spirit and threaten their goal of a high school dipIoma. |
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