
Chain Camera is a 2001 American documentary film directed by Kirby Dick about the lives of Los Angeles high school students.... (Full plot summary below)
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Chain Camera is a 2001 American documentary film directed by Kirby Dick about the lives of Los Angeles high school students.
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| The A.V. ClubScott TobiasBy turns playful, harrowing, intensely moving, and uproariously funny, Chain Camera cuts away all documentary artifice and goes straight to the source, allowing these kids to reveal themselves with the utmost directness and candor. |
| New York Magazine/VultureJohn LeonardKirby Dick... edited 700 hours down into sixteen self-portraits of mostly anxious teenagers, a sort of United Nations of unhappiness, thinking out loud about fathers, sex, race, politics, drugs, and music. |
| New York PostLou LumenickA fascinating snapshot of contemporary teenagers. |
| Mr. ShowbizKevin MaynardThe results are far more real than MTV's The Real World. |
| L.A. WeeklyManohla DargisHilarious, unnerving and remarkably intimate portrait of multiethnic adolescent life that lends vigorous new meaning to the term "teen movie." |
| culturevulture.netGeorge WuKirby's egalitarian impulses get the best of him as he devotes time pretty evenly to each student regardless of how interesting they are individually. |
| Film ThreatRon WellsKirby Dick isn't in the habit of making his presence felt on camera, and his newest documentary allows his subjects to strictly speak for themselves. |
| New Times (L.A.)Gregory WeinkaufGuaranteed to jolt viewers of a Norman Rockwell mentality well into the 21st century. |
| TV Guide MagazineKen FoxWhat's surprising is how bright and engaging these kids are, and for once you're left wanting more. |
| VarietyDavid RooneyProvides an intriguing, well-assembled snapshot of kids in the year 2000, bringing the portraits to an appealing conclusion by briefly revisiting each subject at the prom, graduation and then in sweet on-camera farewells. |