Devil's Playground (2002)
- Directed by
- Lucy Walker
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 17m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.6 of 10 from 36 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary follows several Amish teenagers in Indiana during their rumspringa period. They engage in drinking, drugs, and sex in the non-Amish world while facing a choice between baptism and shunning from their community.
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What happens
Devil's Playground is a 2002 American documentary film directed by Lucy Walker about the experiences of several Amish youths who decide whether to remain in or leave their community and faith during the period known as rumspringa ("running around" in Pennsylvania Dutch). The film follows a few Amish teenagers in LaGrange County, Indiana who enter the "English" (non-Amish) world and experience partying, drinking, illegal drugs, and pre-marital sex. Some teens in the film profess that they will eventually become baptized as adults in the Amish community. If they are baptized, then leave the church, they will be shunned by family and friends; one girl recounts her experience of this. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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