Bully

Name: Bully
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Released: 2011-04-23
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 7.0
Cast: Kirk Smalley

2011·Documentary·1h 32m

7.0

★

This year, over 5 million American kids will be bullied at school, online, on the bus, at home, through their cell phones and on the streets of their towns, making it the most common form of violence young people in this country experience. The Bully Project is the first feature documentary film to show how we've all been affected by bullying, whether we've been victims, perpetrators or stood silent witness. The world we inhabit as adults begins on the playground. The Bully Project opens on the first day of school. For the more than 5 million kids who'll be bullied this year in the United States, it's a day filled with more anxiety and foreboding than excitement. As the sun rises and school busses across the country overflow with backpacks, brass instruments and the rambunctious sounds of raging hormones, this is a ride into the unknown.

Directed by Lee Hirsch

florida

bullying

based on true story

1990s

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Lee Hirsch

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Cynthia Lowen

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Lee Hirsch

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Cynthia Lowen

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Lee Hirsch

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Popular Reviews

38 reviews

Melena

10.0★ · 12/03/25

Watched it for a school project, and i wish i did not, it unlocked trauma that i forgot i even had.

Brendon

7.0★ · 03/20/24

Next month, I plan on watching some documentaries so I'm going to reviews thee differently then any other film despite th efants that I could apply this to fiction film. It's my account, bitch.> Best cover of Teenage Dirtbag> Fuck, Souix City. As an Iowan, I can say that.Pros:

- The wide variety of kids and their individual problems with bullying and how they handled it made them all stand out.
- The film delivers it's message in a way that isn't subtle, but is necessary.
- Not absolutely laughable like Sound of Freedom
- The film, for the most part, doesn't seem exploitative of people's suffering.
- Understanding to nearly everybody.
- Flies by pretty well for the most part.

Cons:
- Address more about the sides of the bullies and why they do what they do.
- Better cameras exist guys. OVERESPOSURE!
- Emotionally manipulative music that, does work at points but is cheesy in others.
- Some repetitiveness and more attention placed other specific kids that makes it feel bizarre when they cut to a kid we haven't seen in like 30 minutes.

Moral Dilemma:
The film is extremely justifiable in its actions, placing strong emphasis on what needs to be done and, unlike Sound of Freedom, is much more easy to relate to. My biggest issue is the occasional lidiling by from the filmmakers when they should probably be stepping up. It did get the word out there, so.......

Katie

5.0★ · 04/20/22

this was very sad.

Liam D

8.0★ · 05/07/21

I remember in 5th grade me and my friends used to bully this one kid a bit. We weren’t that harsh but damn I can never forgive myself for that. I stopped after 5th grade and became friends with him but he left the school district a few years later so I don’t know what happened to him. The movie was pretty good. Sad af

Kelly

7.0★ · 01/30/13

3.5/4