@FredMaradojagger I'm from Brooklyn and would go to Union Square to catch a flick with friends, that whole east village, side had so many different subcultures, club kids, druggies, skateboarders, everything. It was wild, but the creative elements were cool to bear witness.
Me too! Grew up the same way & casually knew a lot of the skaters in the movie being from my City, SF. The movie scared me in a way because I didn’t want to end up like some of its characters, crazy. Ultimately I did, moved to NY, didn’t get the germ but toured some correctional facilities & struggled with addiction before getting my shit together. When people ask me about my tumultuous teen years I always ask if they’ve seen the movie Kids, no cap. It’s an important movie to Gen X imo
it was crazy justin pierce dad was interviewed in like 2020 and after finding out justin was his son in like 2007....HE LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE JUSTIN...sad.
love leo and kids is good, but so many better coming of age films from that time. imo kids piggybacked on the aids crisis with the intention to shock, compare to something like la haine way better film
We ❤ Chloe. The ending of the movie is sad. When the movie was over, I reminded myself Chloe is an actress and her life isn't F'ed. AIDS was very much still a certain death sentence when the movie came out. Anyway, this movie's ending affected me at the time. Some scenes are permanently stuck in my mind and I've only seen the movie two times.
@@joerocha510 I crushed on her lol man, I was crazy for Chloe in this movie when I was 15. She was so angelic in the Tunnel days. I remember how this movie always seemed to stir up something in young guys, kind of like where you want to kick Telly's ass so badly you start pacing around the livingroom lol brought out a strangely chivalrous attitude out of every dude I knew who had seen it. We'd all talk about how bad we'd beat on Telly's monkey flu infested ass. Telly is up there with Alex in Clockwork Orange imo. If Leo reads this, thanks for the classic performance man.
I'm from Houston, and this movie matched perfectly how us kids who really didn't go to school, always screwing around, lived and wandered around aimlessly day to day up to no good. I can't believe how many bad situations we ended up in and how so few of us are left from the early 90s
Bro, me too! I was a skater too in Houston at THAT age when then movie came out. "Kids" nailed it!! Skate boardin', watching skate videos, drinkin 40s, smokin weed, doin whipp-its and hookin up with skater chics! Lol Those were the days!!
How were you allowed to see it; it was rated NC17? My sister tried to take me when I was in Jr. High, and it was a flat-out no. Same when I wanted to see Happiness years later with my dad. The theaters were incredibly diligent about not letting anyone under eighteen see any NC17 film.
Almost like how my high school roommate and I somehow managed to find our way into Boogie Nights. To this day, I don’t know how they sold us tickets and we got let into that movie. 😅 Aside, I was 12 when I saw kids. I was a freshman in high school. I was a smart, varsity jock who hung out with the “weirdos” (ravers, goths, queer kids, punks, skater kids…). Kids will always be a top fave movie; though, I am almost 41 and not sure I will ever watch it again. Maybe as an educational experience with my son, but doubtful. Only time will tell, though!
I grew up with 2 people in this movie, harold and rosario, i lived on the same block as rosario and went to the same school, but shes a year older so we were in different grades, harold lived a block away in campos plaza, both great people
I was 15. From Morningside Heights. I thought it was a documentary. Went to an all boys high school in the UWS, St. Agnes, but was kinda living that skating, smoking blunts life. My parents were strict as shit so my life didn’t get too wild till I got to college outside of the city.
@@softjones3128 The world was vastly different in the 70's, 80's and 90's, unless you lived it, you won't understand. The world is sterile now, its bubble wrapped in a weak, political correct, coddled way to create a world full of agreeable, emotional, r33tards.
@@softjones3128 seems your comment was sarcastic as it would be obvious that it was different 30 years ago, however, being from NYC, the city started to really become different after the Twin Towers went down. By 2010, it had lost the feel of what it had and today it's just not the same. It doesn't feel the way it did, not in the 2000s, the 90s, the 80s, or any time before. Despite what is obvious in that times change, we live in a police state, people are like robots, theres no culture. there are so many reasons for the difference other than just different time periods.
When I was 15 and going through my first breakup, my friend brought this movie over for me to watch. Didn’t cheer me up, obviously. But, I definitely snapped out of the funk I was in….
@@whiteydiamond Yes, I am Based in reality and the reality is both of those movies are extremely traumatizing for a 12 year old to watch, which is the age I was when I watched those flix. Bully is seriously f**ked, especially because it's BASED on real events. Also I am Based af, you should see my political memes
Remember in the mid-nineties. I was in 10th grade. I think when this movie came out. This movie is so much like what really happens one fortunately in real life
This movie was amazing when I was young. I used to skate. We got wild and did super dumb shit. Drugs, acid, booze. All that shit around 14 years old. None of that banging unconscious girls though, that was fucked. However, this movie made me realize that the shit we were doing came with consequences. It made me question a lot of the shit we were doing and slow down and be a lot safer with my movements.
@@Deasnuts1 I buy all the classics on dvd because you no longer can see them. I have this, New Jersey Drive, Above the Rim, Sunset Park all the classic 90’s movies. That’s when I was a kid. So those are the movies I love to watch once a year.
I met Leo Fitzpatrick at an after party at Julian Schnabel's home after his sons Vito's art show at Maccarone when it was in the west village. Leo was the DJ spinning records. That was such an awesome time period. Total legends!
I saw this when I was 13 and I couldn’t believe someone had made a movie about my world (it seems so raw looking back now, but that was the 90s when you were a teen trying to find your place). I even remember a kid like Casper who tried to pull a stunt like that and got the life beaten out of him at a a party by all the boys there. One thing that doesn’t get mentioned is how good this movie was for the advocacy of condom use amongst teens at the time, I probably would have been a dad at 15 if it wasn’t for this movie! People need to remember that this wasn’t every weekend back then, but a summary of a period (for me, between 13 and 16)
this movie portrays exactly what the late 90's early 2000's were like. what a story. one of my all time fav movies. a good tale about friends and consequences. the 5 kids smokin herb on the couch at the end of the movie is one of the best parts. lol
@@brettlinthicum6649 ok e-thug. I worked at a1 records on 6th between Ave A & 1st for 6 years. You likely have never been to NYC so go cry somewhere about your boring little corner of Iowa or wherever
This was one of the most iconic movies of my childhood. This is how I got to know Chloe as an actress, there were a lot of good actors on this movie, but she blows all her parts out of the water, especially boys don’t cry
Grew up in south east. this movie shocked me at 16. kids smoking weed. drinking on screen. we did it also. but felt different. this was hard core life.
I watched this movie in 1998 with my friends when i was 16 and a skater back in poland on polish council estates. This was such an important movie for all of us teena back then. Will never forget that movie
the documentary "we were once kids" really paints a picture of how naive these kids were when that movie came out and blew up. Definitely worth checking out if you haven't seen it.
Nah that hotep dork who made it is just trying to claim some "trauma" sympathy for his 2 minute bit-part in a movie 30 years ago. There's a reason none of the serious actors were in it and the dead guys who didn't have a choice were.
@@reezy2ohneezy521 l live in Australia and I’m watching it right now on Prime Video. It’s says Film Victoria at the start, which is my home state, so the doco was financed by them. What I’ve seen so far, Harold and Justin look like pretty cool guys R.I.P. And Clark looks like a sleeze ball.
“Cuz I already got my blast money.” He was so dope in The Wire. I’ll comes back to acting. I wiiuod watch him in anything. He’s just an interesting dude and I’m always curious what he’s gonna say or do next
I was living in Connecticut when I first saw Kids at a local independent theater. I was super impress by everyone's work and the actors are relatable. Love Chloe's acting in the film!!
The 90’s were so different. Kids these days wouldn’t be able to cope. I would stay gone from my home for weeks at a time and my single mother would be pissed at me but she knew I was fine and the cops would do absolutely nothing to find me. For most of the 90’s I was just a little too young to legally drive (but drove around anyway) and knew how to get everywhere. Also, no exaggeration had about 30 to 40 phone numbers memorized and could get anything I wanted by dialing numbers if I had the money. It was an amazing time and it was extremely toxic if I am being honest. Kids had the competency of adults but were out of control. There was no internet back then either, at least we didn’t have access to it. My son asked me what I would do if I had a question that no one knew the answer to and I couldn’t find the answer at the library and I told him sometimes we just had to deal with the fact that we didn’t know the answers and he looked at me like I was crazy! We didn’t even have cellphones back then and a few of us had pagers and used pay phones to answer! I miss those times! Now AI is going to “F” us up lol!
I moved to Colorado from a small town in Wisconsin and was into a lot of the same things as these kids. I had spent all day at a downtown beer festival in Denver, when my roommate and I thought it best practice to meander over to a nearby art house theater to check out this movie we'd heard about. We walked home afterward, not saying a word. Neither of us did any drugs for at least a couple of weeks. This movie still hits hard and will always be a part of me. And thank you, Leo, for giving me hope that I too could someday be a successful surgeon such as yourself...
@@jeffring8954 ya paying for it would be 💩 no doubt. I had it on VHS but everyone’s entitled to their opinion. Larry Clark the producer had a couple independent films that were good. Bully is another Telly’s in that one also.
We lived in the Newark/Bloomfield/East Orange/Elizabeth NJ area when this movie came out and there was this whole perception that this movie perfectly portrayed the adolescants from north jersey. There was some truth to it but this movie mostly shocked us because of how raw and outlandish it was. We werent getting drunk everyday. We werent getting 16 and pregnant everday. We werent sparking up Js everyday. These were things that were done behind closed doors and only a select few were doing. Most of the teens in our hood were concerned about Saved by The Bell, Friends, the new music video coming out, going to Willowbrook Mall, riding our bikes up and down bloomfield ave, saving up the few dollars to buy chips at the corner store. Meanhwile, in other suburban areas of Jersey, like Caldwell and Glen Ridge, you had teens with full fledged prescription addictions, going to rehab for addication, ODing, disrespecting their parents out in the open, crashing their cars. etc..
Kids definitely brings back memories. I was their age and saw many of them around NY back in the 90s. I used to work at Stüssy at 16 in soho, hang around union square where the skaters hung, and at clubs like the original Sound Factory and NASA where I'd see Harold bustin' some moves in the circles. Was also a huge jungle/DNB fan and would hang with DJ ODI and DKNY (Digital Konfusion NY), mainly as a dancer. My buds and I totally resonated with this movie when we saw it, and were happy that we didn't get caught up! RIP Harold and Justin.
This movie was raw to the core I remember watching it as a teenager it really takes me back Leo played Telly so good the acting was so well written the makers did a excellent job with making this movie actors did excellent to!
I was at the tunnel the night they shot the bathroom scene..one of my homies making out with the 2 girls. What a wild time NYC was in the 90s. Can't believe any of us are still alive. Kids was real as fuck. - RIP HH
yep! same, although, it was at my house, and both my mom and dad were in the room.. how embarrassing that first scene was when I was 14 or 15! then my mom walked away and said...... "this can be your talk" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 RIP dad, we never did actually have that talk, i learned the old fashioned way.. an over eager first girlfriend!
This is one movie I ignored for so long and then when I watched it, it left a deep impact. But mostly nostalgia....I remember watching the ads for Kids when I was an actual kid. The few TV spots it got, and a random one on a video we rented one time. The songs was etched in my memory. I was like 9 or 10. I didnt actually see the film until the 2010s. So I was in my late 20s by then. Hoop Dreams, Kids and Boyz N The Hood are probably the most accurate portrayls of urban life in the 90s. With Hoop obviously being a doc that spent time in actual projects. When I saw Kids, I was actually really sad because so much of what it showed was how we lived as teens in that era. The baddy clothes. The hanging out in crowds and just wasting time. Sure, some exaggerations and scenes I scratched my head at, but at its core, it captured how it was. It was almost like a Lord of The Flies for that time in NY. And I wasnt from NYC or anywhere near the tri state, but I sensed that you could swap those group of teenagers in almost every major city in the country and the stories would be similar. A stamp in time, filmed in very rich quality that holds up.
Grew up in this area at this time leo worked at a skate shop that we used to go to , skated the Brooklyn banks and got to see Harold and all those legends ,,, awesome days
Im too old to enjoy this movie now, but back then we loved this movie. It perfectly distilled our mind set and the way we interacted with each other as teenagers back in the 90s
Late at night I would stumble in the house at roughly the same age as the actors in the film.... super high. And one channel had the balls to air this film. So I got to see it all blasted at 2 a.m. Great film that comes off as some kind of scared straight video.
I've checked maybe 10-11 of your vids (just when they pop in my feed) and i am always so impressed by how smart and well-researched you are. Also...on this edit... to take the interviewer out and only have Leo speak is perfect; the b-roll edit kills too. You're killing it on the mic and nailing it with the all-around thoughtful production. I see you...Oh, Leo is so compelling too. Looking forward to getting into the full thing. Thanks for the great content!
I was 10 when 'Kids' originally came out, and didn't see it until I was about 13, but it's crazy how much of that culture displayed in the movie was similar to my experience growing up, despite it being set in New York and me growing up here in Little Rock, AR. But the skating scene, 90's Hip Hop influence, chasing girls, and the booze N drugs -- all at that ripe young age of 13 to 14, the film definitely stands as a time capsule for younger people now to get an authentic look at what it was like growing up in that era for those of us who engaged in that lifestyle and eventually faced consequences for it. Harmony captures that extremely well with his writing, and the cast was amazing too.
@@v4v819the only thing that really changed was the accent and the environment. Trust me, the stuff you see in Kids happened all over the US, not just NY
Definitely one of the most defining and authentic films that contributed to the zeitgeist of my teenage years, and now looking back...my entire life since then. It wasn't so bad, for some of us.
I saw KIDS growing up a few times, great film. Look up why Harmony got banned on Letterman - hah. Soleil Moon’s documentary also goes into some depth on the KIDS cast since she hung out with them when she was growing up. She is the actress from Punky Brewster.
This movie is so profound. I walked into my sisters friends house (she’s 7 years older than me) I was born in 85, them passing a cigarette as a joint. I still know where I was standing in that house. Later watched it a few years later. Quote it all the time. RIP Josh Campbell. This movie is a staple in history.
First time I seen kids it was maybe 96-97 late night on HBO. I was on acid all I remember is thinking wtf am I watching! Is this real like some kind of documentary 😂😂
When they jumped that dude and used their skateboards, and then you saw his face on the ground at the end of the scene, man that really traumatized me. We grew up in North Jersey and seen our fair share of street fights and people getting jumped, but the way they callously portrayed that, and how like 20 teens were flinging skateboards, was so raw and messed up.
I always forget seeing this mid movie in 1995. But it's because I was high and drunk having real life dumb adventures. The movie is boring for anyone that actually knows what street life is like at that age.
@odeleon24 Yes! He was schoolin that group of dumb dumbs 😆 Too bad his character was part of the dumb club, too. No matter, though, he did great in that role. I love the movie Bully. I watch it every year, at least. Sometimes more!
He was perfect for the role. One of the realest & grittiest portrayals of city life and one of my favorites to this day.
He really was perfect, for the role..
Fit the n.y. skate rat kid to the hilt!
I was their age when this came out, and went to school with kids like them, and was so grateful that my parents were as vigilant as they were
in nyc too?
@FredMaradojagger I'm from Brooklyn and would go to Union Square to catch a flick with friends, that whole east village, side had so many different subcultures, club kids, druggies, skateboarders, everything. It was wild, but the creative elements were cool to bear witness.
You missed out...
Me too! Grew up the same way & casually knew a lot of the skaters in the movie being from my City, SF. The movie scared me in a way because I didn’t want to end up like some of its characters, crazy. Ultimately I did, moved to NY, didn’t get the germ but toured some correctional facilities & struggled with addiction before getting my shit together. When people ask me about my tumultuous teen years I always ask if they’ve seen the movie Kids, no cap. It’s an important movie to Gen X imo
same man haha
RIP Justin Pierce and Harold Hunter
Who dis ? You knew them ?
@@michaeljohn8905 JP played Casper and Harold was also in the movie. Long time NYC skater
He was also in Next Friday
I think he died before the movie released
it was crazy justin pierce dad was interviewed in like 2020 and after finding out justin was his son in like 2007....HE LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE JUSTIN...sad.
Don't worry Jen, it's just Casper the friendly ghost knocking on your back door lol
I have no legs! I have no legs!! 🍻
yep.. will never forget that scene.. well, will never forget this movie in general, but that scene is one of the most memorable.
Kiss me I’m Polish. That was the shirt he was wearing
God bless you 😊
Lol classic
Wow you’re trash for saying this
as hard as they try..there will never be another movie like Kids.
Is anyone even trying?
@@joseph-the-seventh Yes there are plenty of "teen" movies that have tried to be as raw and scandalous as this movie was.
love leo and kids is good, but so many better coming of age films from that time. imo kids piggybacked on the aids crisis with the intention to shock, compare to something like la haine way better film
@@joseph-the-seventh I think jonah hill tried to something similar with Mid 90's
Well said
NYC 1994. This is an accurate portrayal of what it was like for a teenager of almost any background from NYC at this time.
In San Francisco it was Exactly the same as well.
Pretty much every city in that era.
It hasn't changed...
It was like every crazy thing that happened all rolled into one movie. But the latch key kid behavior was accurate
Trashy people
Thanks for doing this, Leo. The movie had an impact on me and my friends back then and for that I'm grateful.
Chloe was perfect...couldn't imagine the movie without her. taxi cab ride scene is so good
Hell yeah she crushed that scene.
one of the better looking girls in the movie too.
We ❤ Chloe. The ending of the movie is sad. When the movie was over, I reminded myself Chloe is an actress and her life isn't F'ed. AIDS was very much still a certain death sentence when the movie came out. Anyway, this movie's ending affected me at the time. Some scenes are permanently stuck in my mind and I've only seen the movie two times.
@@joerocha510 I crushed on her lol man, I was crazy for Chloe in this movie when I was 15. She was so angelic in the Tunnel days. I remember how this movie always seemed to stir up something in young guys, kind of like where you want to kick Telly's ass so badly you start pacing around the livingroom lol brought out a strangely chivalrous attitude out of every dude I knew who had seen it. We'd all talk about how bad we'd beat on Telly's monkey flu infested ass. Telly is up there with Alex in Clockwork Orange imo. If Leo reads this, thanks for the classic performance man.
“What the fuck happens”🌞😎
I'm from Houston, and this movie matched perfectly how us kids who really didn't go to school, always screwing around, lived and wandered around aimlessly day to day up to no good. I can't believe how many bad situations we ended up in and how so few of us are left from the early 90s
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I am from Davenport Iowa, and yes, I live in a smaller city, but this movie was how we were growing up in the 90s and being a teen, I feel you bro
Bro, me too! I was a skater too in Houston at THAT age when then movie came out. "Kids" nailed it!! Skate boardin', watching skate videos, drinkin 40s, smokin weed, doin whipp-its and hookin up with skater chics! Lol Those were the days!!
Did you go to A.C.E.?
@@dane3038 Yeah! I went to Eisenhower half of the day and A.C.E the other half.
This movie made me so glad to grow up on a small farm outside of a little town!
Meet Leo a few times at his gallery, what a kind and humble Guy
I was visiting my cousins in LA when this came out in 1995. I was 15. We saw it at the theater and my mind was quite blown. 😂
The movie was so raw.
How were you allowed to see it; it was rated NC17? My sister tried to take me when I was in Jr. High, and it was a flat-out no. Same when I wanted to see Happiness years later with my dad. The theaters were incredibly diligent about not letting anyone under eighteen see any NC17 film.
Almost like how my high school roommate and I somehow managed to find our way into Boogie Nights. To this day, I don’t know how they sold us tickets and we got let into that movie. 😅
Aside, I was 12 when I saw kids. I was a freshman in high school. I was a smart, varsity jock who hung out with the “weirdos” (ravers, goths, queer kids, punks, skater kids…). Kids will always be a top fave movie; though, I am almost 41 and not sure I will ever watch it again. Maybe as an educational experience with my son, but doubtful. Only time will tell, though!
I’m glad he was in The Wire which is my hands down favorite series ever.
Definitely...The Wire and Boardwalk Empire are my 2 favorite series ever
@@warborn_inc. Sopranos/Wire. Nobody can replicate Imperioli, but I could have seen Justin Pierce play Christopher in another dimension.
The wire is great!
I grew up with 2 people in this movie, harold and rosario, i lived on the same block as rosario and went to the same school, but shes a year older so we were in different grades, harold lived a block away in campos plaza, both great people
and her nudes are all over the internet
RIP Harold
@@bobanmilisavljevic7857 what happened to him? how he die??
@@deathadone88he’s been dead
@@ELAL139 how did he die? car crash? junk? cancer etc...??
16 years old when this came out. II Went school in the heart of Chelsea. This movie scared the absolute shit out of me.
I was 15. From Morningside Heights. I thought it was a documentary. Went to an all boys high school in the UWS, St. Agnes, but was kinda living that skating, smoking blunts life. My parents were strict as shit so my life didn’t get too wild till I got to college outside of the city.
The cinematography on this thing was Incredible
Leo was great in Bully. Bully is a perfect companion piece to Kids
Find and watch Harmony’s other movies. Gummo, in particular.
@@extrameat2456 you watch the Trashman one?
@@extrameat2456 Bully isn't a Harmony movie...
@@v4v819yeah, but it's Larry, so in same universe in a way.
Gummo I found to be one of the most disturbing movies I’ve ever seen .
Crazy how accurate they portrayed the 90’s living in NY..
I bet you never set foot in NY in your life...
@@v4v819 😂😂 grew up in Astoria went to is 125… fool
@@alexuribe1126 You're a cue de sac kid if i ever smelled one.. LMFAO!!!!
@@v4v819 migrant cesspool
@@v4v819Bahahaha he’s as nyc as it gets you putz
Cant believe multiple amazing people from this movie are gone...
RIP Justin Pierce
Everybody dies, man. One day there will be no one left at all
@joegibbskins all deaths are tragic but their deaths were very tragic and early..
2? 😂
Yeah two deaths really merit a sensationalist comment like that
Kids and Menace 2 society were the best movies of young crazy urban life of the 90s.
Juice as well
This movie is so nostalgic for me. The 90’s definitely were wild
I remember when they were filming kids and going to those raves at Nasa, The vibe in New York was so different back then
you think it was different three decades ago?
@@softjones3128 it was... I skated nyc in the laye 80's & early 90's the city was much much different in those days
@@softjones3128 The world was vastly different in the 70's, 80's and 90's, unless you lived it, you won't understand. The world is sterile now, its bubble wrapped in a weak, political correct, coddled way to create a world full of agreeable, emotional, r33tards.
@@softjones3128 seems your comment was sarcastic as it would be obvious that it was different 30 years ago, however, being from NYC, the city started to really become different after the Twin Towers went down. By 2010, it had lost the feel of what it had and today it's just not the same. It doesn't feel the way it did, not in the 2000s, the 90s, the 80s, or any time before. Despite what is obvious in that times change, we live in a police state, people are like robots, theres no culture. there are so many reasons for the difference other than just different time periods.
@@jaygio Like Rudy cleaning up Time Square and the domino effect it had throughout Man and the 5Bs
When I was 15 and going through my first breakup, my friend brought this movie over for me to watch.
Didn’t cheer me up, obviously. But, I definitely snapped out of the funk I was in….
This film is timeless and truly captures the stress and uncertainty of being a kid.
This movie and Bully traumatized me for life. Thanks Leo...
Same
OH CMON MAN I THOUGH YOU WERE BASED OR WHATEVER
@@whiteydiamond Yes, I am Based in reality and the reality is both of those movies are extremely traumatizing for a 12 year old to watch, which is the age I was when I watched those flix. Bully is seriously f**ked, especially because it's BASED on real events.
Also I am Based af, you should see my political memes
Love hearing Leo's insight about how he was cast. Also appreciate seeing scenes from KIDS, as someone who spent his young adult years in NYC.
Remember in the mid-nineties. I was in 10th grade. I think when this movie came out.
This movie is so much like what really happens one fortunately in real life
This movie was amazing when I was young. I used to skate. We got wild and did super dumb shit. Drugs, acid, booze. All that shit around 14 years old. None of that banging unconscious girls though, that was fucked. However, this movie made me realize that the shit we were doing came with consequences. It made me question a lot of the shit we were doing and slow down and be a lot safer with my movements.
One of the greatest movie of my era ever made. This and New Jersey Drive. 2 classics
Watched new jersey drive 1000 times when i was like 9-10 probably halfway not even understanding it lmfaooo
@@Deasnuts1 I buy all the classics on dvd because you no longer can see them. I have this, New Jersey Drive, Above the Rim, Sunset Park all the classic 90’s movies. That’s when I was a kid. So those are the movies I love to watch once a year.
NJ drive is a throw back, great call
Sounds like a chill dude. played well in Kids and on The Wire.
and Bully
And the Heart She Holler
Sounds like you need to shut up
Who was he on the wire?
@@EVILLOVER01 Bubbles green buddy Johnny Weeks
Those London references were gold. Slam City Skates, South Bank (still there til this day) and drum n bass raves. The good old days!!
To know he was hitting DnB raves in London around 97' is sick 😆
chillin with Tom Penny ... no big deal
Stella for 99p, lol, feels like a long time ago now.
I met Leo Fitzpatrick at an after party at Julian Schnabel's home after his sons Vito's art show at Maccarone when it was in the west village. Leo was the DJ spinning records. That was such an awesome time period. Total legends!
Leo is great in The Wire as well.
I saw this when I was 13 and I couldn’t believe someone had made a movie about my world (it seems so raw looking back now, but that was the 90s when you were a teen trying to find your place). I even remember a kid like Casper who tried to pull a stunt like that and got the life beaten out of him at a a party by all the boys there.
One thing that doesn’t get mentioned is how good this movie was for the advocacy of condom use amongst teens at the time, I probably would have been a dad at 15 if it wasn’t for this movie!
People need to remember that this wasn’t every weekend back then, but a summary of a period (for me, between 13 and 16)
Damn good movie. Just rewatched again with my wife (her first watch). Intense work of art that pulls no punches.
Same, think it shocked her
remember when I first saw this film - still hits as hard everytime I watch it, great soundtrack.
I saw this when it came out and was the same age as the kids in the film. What a trip that was.
Larry Clark made some great films. Anyone remember Bully?
That one was sad at end . Kid cut his wrists
Yes. Wild movie. Loosely based on a true story no?
Terrible camera work in Bully. Especially that scene where the camera is going in circles around all the characters.
Great movie
I have both films on DVD.
this movie portrays exactly what the late 90's early 2000's were like. what a story. one of my all time fav movies. a good tale about friends and consequences. the 5 kids smokin herb on the couch at the end of the movie is one of the best parts. lol
Man I remember how much it captured that timeframe in NYC. All the kids running with nothing to do cuz we had no money in the summers.
Skateboard n all
Sold this dude records several times in the East Village. Chill legend.
Can you tell us which records? Pardon me, but I love music and your comment has me curious. Thanks for reading.
No you didn’t. Stop lying for attention.
@@brettlinthicum6649 ok little guy, worked at A1 Records for 6 years. 439 e 6th street. FOH
@@brettlinthicum6649 ok e-thug. I worked at a1 records on 6th between Ave A & 1st for 6 years. You likely have never been to NYC so go cry somewhere about your boring little corner of Iowa or wherever
Chill legend?
Kids was everything
This was one of the most iconic movies of my childhood. This is how I got to know Chloe as an actress, there were a lot of good actors on this movie, but she blows all her parts out of the water, especially boys don’t cry
As a skater who grew up between London and LA, it's awesome to hear how much this guy knows about skating, London, and LA. Very cool.
Grew up in south east. this movie shocked me at 16. kids smoking weed. drinking on screen. we did it also. but felt different. this was hard core life.
I love this movie and casper's style,
(Rip Justin)
“Casper the dopeste Ghost in town”. Amazing movie - he was also Hella cool in Friday part 2😎
I watched this movie in 1998 with my friends when i was 16 and a skater back in poland on polish council estates. This was such an important movie for all of us teena back then. Will never forget that movie
“Kiss me, I’m Polish!” - the “I Got No Legs “dude 😂
It's a shame Leo never broke bigger as an actor. I recently rewatched Bully and his performance as the hitman was phenomenal.
the documentary "we were once kids" really paints a picture of how naive these kids were when that movie came out and blew up. Definitely worth checking out if you haven't seen it.
Nah that hotep dork who made it is just trying to claim some "trauma" sympathy for his 2 minute bit-part in a movie 30 years ago. There's a reason none of the serious actors were in it and the dead guys who didn't have a choice were.
How'd you see it? I'm in the U.S waiting to stream it some how.😊
@@reezy2ohneezy521 l live in Australia and I’m watching it right now on Prime Video. It’s says Film Victoria at the start, which is my home state, so the doco was financed by them. What I’ve seen so far, Harold and Justin look like pretty cool guys R.I.P. And Clark looks like a sleeze ball.
Naive lol tell me what kids at young teenage age aren’t naive? This is why the KIDS was great in 95 when I was 15. It was real, no BS.
@@Paul77ozeejustin died enough with your lies
This was growing up in the 90s in NYC
This was great. Loved Kids, saw it when I was the same age as the subjects of the film.
The soundtrack was good too
The subjects? 😂 Ok...
@@MegaLBreezy the specimens
@@MegaLBreezy yeah, the kids? The cast.
@@RoseanneSeason7 the whole vibe was untouchable, 90s NYC was incredible. Another movie which captures a less-dark side of this was "Hackers"
“Cuz I already got my blast money.”
He was so dope in The Wire.
I’ll comes back to acting. I wiiuod watch him in anything.
He’s just an interesting dude and I’m always curious what he’s gonna say or do next
I was living in Connecticut when I first saw Kids at a local independent theater. I was super impress by everyone's work and the actors are relatable. Love Chloe's acting in the film!!
The 90’s were so different. Kids these days wouldn’t be able to cope. I would stay gone from my home for weeks at a time and my single mother would be pissed at me but she knew I was fine and the cops would do absolutely nothing to find me. For most of the 90’s I was just a little too young to legally drive (but drove around anyway) and knew how to get everywhere. Also, no exaggeration had about 30 to 40 phone numbers memorized and could get anything I wanted by dialing numbers if I had the money. It was an amazing time and it was extremely toxic if I am being honest. Kids had the competency of adults but were out of control. There was no internet back then either, at least we didn’t have access to it. My son asked me what I would do if I had a question that no one knew the answer to and I couldn’t find the answer at the library and I told him sometimes we just had to deal with the fact that we didn’t know the answers and he looked at me like I was crazy! We didn’t even have cellphones back then and a few of us had pagers and used pay phones to answer! I miss those times! Now AI is going to “F” us up lol!
I moved to Colorado from a small town in Wisconsin and was into a lot of the same things as these kids. I had spent all day at a downtown beer festival in Denver, when my roommate and I thought it best practice to meander over to a nearby art house theater to check out this movie we'd heard about. We walked home afterward, not saying a word. Neither of us did any drugs for at least a couple of weeks.
This movie still hits hard and will always be a part of me. And thank you, Leo, for giving me hope that I too could someday be a successful surgeon such as yourself...
This is honestly one of my favourite movies of all time 💯
Changed my whole perspective on life
Really? I thought it was completely garbage. Watched when I was 16 when it came out. Man did it suck
@@jeffring8954 other than Telly and Caspers fuck ups
I can relate to all of it
@Dlo-yj6wm me too, but it still is trash in my opinion. Left that movie like wtf was that crap, can't believe I paid for dog sh!t.
@@jeffring8954 ya paying for it would be 💩 no doubt.
I had it on VHS but everyone’s entitled to their opinion.
Larry Clark the producer had a couple independent films that were good.
Bully is another
Telly’s in that one also.
I need to watch this again. When I was a kid I never liked the movie but just about everyone my age loved it.
I worked a few day on a set with Leo and he was a very nice guy he chilled and chatted with anyone even us on the bottom of the production credits lol
He was perfect for the role, I was one of the kid's who loved this movie when it came out but was a midwest skater kid.
So nostalgic
We lived in the Newark/Bloomfield/East Orange/Elizabeth NJ area when this movie came out and there was this whole perception that this movie perfectly portrayed the adolescants from north jersey.
There was some truth to it but this movie mostly shocked us because of how raw and outlandish it was.
We werent getting drunk everyday. We werent getting 16 and pregnant everday. We werent sparking up Js everyday. These were things that were done behind closed doors and only a select few were doing.
Most of the teens in our hood were concerned about Saved by The Bell, Friends, the new music video coming out, going to Willowbrook Mall, riding our bikes up and down bloomfield ave, saving up the few dollars to buy chips at the corner store.
Meanhwile, in other suburban areas of Jersey, like Caldwell and Glen Ridge, you had teens with full fledged prescription addictions, going to rehab for addication, ODing, disrespecting their parents out in the open, crashing their cars. etc..
this movie was famously about kids in manhattan! 😂
@@frsothman sure, tell that to pearl clutching suburban moms and do-gooders who like to push narratives.
🧱 🧱 🧱 City. I agree
Kids definitely brings back memories. I was their age and saw many of them around NY back in the 90s. I used to work at Stüssy at 16 in soho, hang around union square where the skaters hung, and at clubs like the original Sound Factory and NASA where I'd see Harold bustin' some moves in the circles. Was also a huge jungle/DNB fan and would hang with DJ ODI and DKNY (Digital Konfusion NY), mainly as a dancer. My buds and I totally resonated with this movie when we saw it, and were happy that we didn't get caught up! RIP Harold and Justin.
“That Telly, he shoor was good in the sack.” (Old lady voice)
(perished of AIDS aged 13)
***"Sure"
"distick"
@@deadseagull-xf3lk “Mad flavor, heavy flow,” 😂😂
@@Dan.Solo.Chicago "Three pennies and a ball o' lint, kiiiddd"
This movie was raw to the core I remember watching it as a teenager it really takes me back Leo played Telly so good the acting was so well written the makers did a excellent job with making this movie actors did excellent to!
I was at the tunnel the night they shot the bathroom scene..one of my homies making out with the 2 girls. What a wild time NYC was in the 90s. Can't believe any of us are still alive. Kids was real as fuck. - RIP HH
1 of my favorite movie of all time….i was 19 when this movie 1st came out. I miss the old NY
I went and saw this as a 13yr old skater w/ my Dad 😂😂😂 I slid down in that seat and covered my face 😂😂😂
yep! same, although, it was at my house, and both my mom and dad were in the room.. how embarrassing that first scene was when I was 14 or 15! then my mom walked away and said...... "this can be your talk" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 RIP dad, we never did actually have that talk, i learned the old fashioned way.. an over eager first girlfriend!
@@johnlombardo7816 Hope you didn't catch the hiv lol
couldve been worse...mom couldve went.
@@heathmcrigsby 🤣🤣🤣🤣 thankfully, in 42 years still safe
@@johnlombardo7816 no way ! Damn lol
This is one movie I ignored for so long and then when I watched it, it left a deep impact. But mostly nostalgia....I remember watching the ads for Kids when I was an actual kid. The few TV spots it got, and a random one on a video we rented one time. The songs was etched in my memory. I was like 9 or 10. I didnt actually see the film until the 2010s. So I was in my late 20s by then.
Hoop Dreams, Kids and Boyz N The Hood are probably the most accurate portrayls of urban life in the 90s. With Hoop obviously being a doc that spent time in actual projects. When I saw Kids, I was actually really sad because so much of what it showed was how we lived as teens in that era. The baddy clothes. The hanging out in crowds and just wasting time. Sure, some exaggerations and scenes I scratched my head at, but at its core, it captured how it was. It was almost like a Lord of The Flies for that time in NY.
And I wasnt from NYC or anywhere near the tri state, but I sensed that you could swap those group of teenagers in almost every major city in the country and the stories would be similar. A stamp in time, filmed in very rich quality that holds up.
Casper. The friendly ghost
The dopest ghost aroma! R.i.p.
This was what kept me in line for a long while after I saw it
💯
still one of my favourite movies of all time
Grew up in this area at this time leo worked at a skate shop that we used to go to , skated the Brooklyn banks and got to see Harold and all those legends ,,, awesome days
“Butterscotch”
I still say that til this day lol 🫳
The best yo
👌🏽
Im too old to enjoy this movie now, but back then we loved this movie. It perfectly distilled our mind set and the way we interacted with each other as teenagers back in the 90s
Late at night I would stumble in the house at roughly the same age as the actors in the film.... super high. And one channel had the balls to air this film. So I got to see it all blasted at 2 a.m. Great film that comes off as some kind of scared straight video.
I've checked maybe 10-11 of your vids (just when they pop in my feed) and i am always so impressed by how smart and well-researched you are. Also...on this edit... to take the interviewer out and only have Leo speak is perfect; the b-roll edit kills too. You're killing it on the mic and nailing it with the all-around thoughtful production. I see you...Oh, Leo is so compelling too. Looking forward to getting into the full thing. Thanks for the great content!
I was 10 when 'Kids' originally came out, and didn't see it until I was about 13, but it's crazy how much of that culture displayed in the movie was similar to my experience growing up, despite it being set in New York and me growing up here in Little Rock, AR. But the skating scene, 90's Hip Hop influence, chasing girls, and the booze N drugs -- all at that ripe young age of 13 to 14, the film definitely stands as a time capsule for younger people now to get an authentic look at what it was like growing up in that era for those of us who engaged in that lifestyle and eventually faced consequences for it. Harmony captures that extremely well with his writing, and the cast was amazing too.
I was 11. My sister put me on. I live in NY. Was nuts
I can't think of a a more opposite environment to NY then Little Rock... LMFAO!!!!!
You were 10 at the time you never really lived the true 90's teen experience. Never understood millennials need to high jack gen x culture
@@v4v819the only thing that really changed was the accent and the environment. Trust me, the stuff you see in Kids happened all over the US, not just NY
@@Spooky_515 I'm gen alpha hear me roar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can't believe it's been 30yrs. Still one of favorite flix
This movie was disturbing.
As a teenager at that time, the worst influence on us! But... Live and let live! We here!
It was meant to be
It was real for some of us 90s kids
@@SeaTK610 Even real-er today...
That's how reality is. Especially the people that didn't live it.
I have this on dvd still. It was a classic bk then!
That is cool that he came to London.
Definitely one of the most defining and authentic films that contributed to the zeitgeist of my teenage years, and now looking back...my entire life since then.
It wasn't so bad, for some of us.
"Jenny, it's me, Casper. (slap,slap,slap)"
Casper for me was the focal point. Just a brain dead kid tripping through existence with zero direction.
Remember the story about dudes cousin that picked up chicks at the special Olympics? 😹
@@Spooky_515 that was some "all in" shit..don't remember 'olympics' some special camp maybe?
I watched KIDS when I was 15.. it opened my eyes and left me feeling some type of way I’ll never forget this film 10/10
"do you know who Damon Wayans is?" lol
Doesn't sound like they knew lol
you could hear the blank stares
heard a little girl ask "who's tom hanks?" yep, we're getting old
Literally this 🤣
Name drops a ton of skaters that aren’t household names like everyone knows them. Then says that about Damon Wayans.
I saw KIDS growing up a few times, great film. Look up why Harmony got banned on Letterman - hah. Soleil Moon’s documentary also goes into some depth on the KIDS cast since she hung out with them when she was growing up. She is the actress from Punky Brewster.
The documentary Kid 90?
@@D33Lux Yup!
@@D33Lux to elaborate - two of her close friends died of su1 cide 10 years apart. One being Justin Pierce (he was in KIDS).
Movie was instant cuot classic. I loved it
This movie is so profound. I walked into my sisters friends house (she’s 7 years older than me) I was born in 85, them passing a cigarette as a joint. I still know where I was standing in that house. Later watched it a few years later. Quote it all the time. RIP Josh Campbell. This movie is a staple in history.
We need more movies like this
no we don't
One of my favorite movies of all time
First time I seen kids it was maybe 96-97 late night on HBO. I was on acid all I remember is thinking wtf am I watching! Is this real like some kind of documentary 😂😂
I remember when this movie came out, invited my friends over to watch. To teens from the midwest in the 90s this was some wild shit!
90s version of the skating mclovin
This is amazing! Thank you! 🙏
i seen Bully before Kids. always knew him as the hitman!
Reverse for me. When I saw Bully, I was like, oh sh*t, it's Telly! 😂
I have this movie on both vhs and DVD .. history right here !
This interviewer didn't know who Damon wayons was?!
I said the same thing, I was like tf, did homey live in a dog kennel under a house? How is that possible
This is one of my favorite movies! Very well directed! 👏
I’ll never forget seeing kids in 95
When they jumped that dude and used their skateboards, and then you saw his face on the ground at the end of the scene, man that really traumatized me.
We grew up in North Jersey and seen our fair share of street fights and people getting jumped, but the way they callously portrayed that, and how like 20 teens were flinging skateboards, was so raw and messed up.
I always forget seeing this mid movie in 1995. But it's because I was high and drunk having real life dumb adventures. The movie is boring for anyone that actually knows what street life is like at that age.
@@MsBee you saying in the early 90s teens street life in different boroughs was nothing like this? Plus this is boring, interesting.
@@ICLight412 I'm saying that only kids that led a nerf life thinks this is a good and/or "real" movie.
@@MsBeespeak for yourself. Everyone in my click loved it. Kids spoke to us in a way other movies couldn't and we loved it for acknowledging us
I love kids !!! I needs to be on streaming services please !!! Please!!!!
My favorite role of his will always be the Mafia Dude in Bully. CMF
“This is some heavy shit!”
@@odeleon24he was from the Crazy Mfr's 😂
@@MissysDomain when he flips out at the beach, best scene!!
@odeleon24 Yes! He was schoolin that group of dumb dumbs 😆 Too bad his character was part of the dumb club, too. No matter, though, he did great in that role. I love the movie Bully. I watch it every year, at least. Sometimes more!
" IT'S A SIGNAL" !!!