SummaryTen students at John Marshall High School in Los Angeles were given video cameras to film their lives. There were no limitations on what they could shoot. After one week, the cameras were given to ten new students, who filmed their lives for a week, then handed the cameras on. Like chain letters, these cameras were passed from student to student ... Read More
Directed By:Kirby Dick
Chain Camera
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
75% Positive
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By 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.
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Hilarious, unnerving and remarkably intimate portrait of multiethnic adolescent life that lends vigorous new meaning to the term "teen movie."
75
Informative, funny, sad and intriguing.
70
Filtered through tears, laughter and affection, the results -- are touching and fascinating though, by their nature unilluminated by dispassionate analysis.
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What's surprising is how bright and engaging these kids are, and for once you're left wanting more.
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Often tedious, sometimes fascinating anthology.
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Absorbing in places, but considering the large and diverse pool the filmmakers had to draw from, it's a surprisingly repetitive and predictable collection of big-city sagas.
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Production Company:
- Cinemax Reel Life
- hain Camera Pictures
Release Date:Jun 22, 2001
Duration:1 h 30 m
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Awards
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
