kid 90

kid 90

As a teenager in the '90s, Soleil Moon Frye carried a video camera everywhere she went. She documented hundreds of hours of footage and then locked it away for over 20 years.

  • Released: 2021-03-12
  • Runtime: 71 minutes
  • Genre: Documentaries
  • Stars: Soleil Moon Frye, David Arquette, Stephen Dorff, Balthazar Getty, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Brian Austin Green, Tori Leonard, Heather McComb, Buzz Aldrin, Dana Ashbrook, Jeffrey Ballard, Jonathan Brandis, Marlon Brando, Adam Carolla, Leonardo DiCaprio, Corey Feldman, Sara Gilbert, Jenny Lewis, Sasha Jenson, Emmanuel Lewis, Mario López, Paul Newman, Justin Pierce, Charlie Sheen, Michael Rapaport, Jonathan Silverman, Mark Wahlberg, Johnny Depp
  • Director: Soleil Moon Frye
 Comments
  • timmyhollywood - 22 November 2022
    Just because you can, doesn't mean you should
    It's a line from Jurassic Park. Just because we *can* clone dinosaurs, doesn't mean we *should*. Here, just because you can stitch together a bunch of video footage of famous people in the '90s and sell it to Hulu, doesn't mean you should.

    I grew up in the same decade and also always had a camera with me. VHS, VHS-C, Hi-8, and finally mini-DV. It all looks like crap. The '90s, unfortunately, straddled the line between shooting on film and shooting on high def. So here is a jittery mess of pixellated people.

    But that's the least of the reasons why this documentary didn't work.

    It didn't work because there was no story. Even a doc needs some narrative flow. This jumped haplessly from one thing to the next. Each time it started to get interesting, it backed away. Any sort of cohesion or narrative or insight just dissolved back into a hodgepodge of images. I kept thinking "And...?" There would be a build up, but suddenly nothing. On to the next shot of Soleil wiping a tear from her eye.

    The modern-day interviews were very clipped. Perry Farrell would say one line, Stephen Dorf would grunt a couple of words. Mark-Paul Gosselear had some interesting things to say about not wanting to have his kids work in Hollywood, though. Should have been more of him.

    But Even Soleil taking about her own rape (?), terrible as it must've been, was muddled and confusing. It seemed to blend, too, with the story about her losing her virginity. That's how confused I was. I shut it off.
  • NickKnack68 - 16 January 2022
    Ughh
    I think Punky was attention starved? Either way this is pretty much like letting everyone look at your personal diary. It's hard to feel bad for these kids who had it all and threw it away on drugs and alcohol.

    Sad and unnecessary.
  • evilsonofagun - 14 September 2021
    Interesting Idea, Nothing To See Here
    The footage is amazing, we're seeing stuff and people from when I was growing up and who we were watching at the time. It was an interesting look into some private lives which we're not likely to get again because to her point everyone is so guarded or trying to project an image at all times.

    I actually couldn't finish the movie because the creator was essentially having a pity party and using the footage as a way to give her a reason to speak. It sounds like some awful stuff happened to her, but with privilege comes responsibility and I don't think she takes any responsibility for how she might have conducted herself with her peer group. She shows how cool she is and that everyone loved her and then admittedly says that she didn't have time for any of them, and my bad is the only thoughtful thing she could emote, and then on to how awful her life was, but also how awesome it was at the same time. I got to the point about half way in where I just couldn't stand her anymore.

    I think the video and phone messages could have spoken for themselves and would have made a worthy picture on their own, but I think she just wanted to tell everyone how cool she thinks she was 25 years ago.