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Bloody Kids (1980)

Bloody Kids poster
Directed by
Stephen Poliakoff, Stephen Frears
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 31m
Rated
16
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two teenage boys get into trouble one night in a British city. One exaggerates an injury to get attention while things spiral out of control.

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What happens

Bloody Kids is a British television film written by Stephen Poliakoff and directed by Stephen Frears, made by Black Lion Films for ATV, and first shown on ITV on 22 March 1980. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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