Bully | |
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Directed by | Larry Clark |
Screenplay by | Zachary Long Roger Pullis |
Based on | Bully by Jim Schutze |
Produced by | Don Murphy Chris Hanley Fernando Sulichin |
Starring | Brad Renfro Bijou Phillips Rachel Miner Michael Pitt Kelli Garner Daniel Franzese Nick Stahl Leo Fitzpatrick |
Cinematography | Steve Gainer |
Edited by | Andrew Hafitz |
Music by | Joe Poledouris Jerome Dillon |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | Lions Gate Films |
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Running time | 114 minutes[1] |
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Language | English |
Budget | $2.1 million[3] |
Box office | $1.4 million[3] |
Bully is a 2001 crime drama[4] film directed by Larry Clark, and starring Brad Renfro, Bijou Phillips, Rachel Miner, Michael Pitt, Leo Fitzpatrick, Daniel Franzese, Kelli Garner, and Nick Stahl. Its plot follows a group of teenagers in South Florida who enact a murder plot against their mutual bully who has emotionally, physically, and sexually abused them for years.
The film is based on the murder of Bobby Kent, and its screenplay was adapted by David McKenna (under the pseudonym Zachary Long) and Roger Pullis from the book Bully: A True Story of High School Revenge by Jim Schutze. Filming took place in southern Florida in the summer of 2000.
Bully was given a limited release in the United States on July 13, 2001, and met with mixed critical responses, though many critics noted the film's disturbing handling of youth crime and murder.
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