Bully

2011 "It's time to take a stand."
7.3| 1h32m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 23 April 2011 Released
Producted By: The Weinstein Company
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
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Official Website: http://www.thebullyproject.com/
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This year, over 5 million American kids will be bullied at school, online, on the bus, at home, through their cell phones and on the streets of their towns, making it the most common form of violence young people in this country experience. The Bully Project is the first feature documentary film to show how we've all been affected by bullying, whether we've been victims, perpetrators or stood silent witness. The world we inhabit as adults begins on the playground. The Bully Project opens on the first day of school. For the more than 5 million kids who'll be bullied this year in the United States, it's a day filled with more anxiety and foreboding than excitement. As the sun rises and school busses across the country overflow with backpacks, brass instruments and the rambunctious sounds of raging hormones, this is a ride into the unknown.

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Lee Hirsch

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ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
Megamind To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.
Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
SmallFox 1 This documentary covers 95% of what every other documentary, T.V show special, and bad Lifetime Network movie has done 100 times before. How? Don't worry I'll make my case.1. There's a Dad in the story who talks about his son who committed suicide from being bullied and what do the parents do about their sons death? They whine,mope and cry That's it. The parents, didn't confront the school for negligence of a student or the bullies who got off scott free. Worst parents ever!2. There's an assistant principal who does (shocker) absolutely nothing about any kids who get bullied. She is confronted several times throughout the whole documentary by both students and parents alike and guess what? She doesn't enforce any of her own authority. Seriously, is was anyone surprised?3. None of the parents ever put their foots down and demand from the school district that their own kids be protected from bullies because all the parents ever do is, you guessed it, wine,mope and cry. It truly is pathetic when that happens because the kids who are bullied are just left as punching bags who will also grow up never learning how to put their own foots down..All of the messages tie into the same mealy mouthed,pussy footing messages that might as well say "You see you big mean bullies? you hurt their little feelings and how they either suffer from depression or have committed suicide. Are you happy now?" I hate the whole passive/ignore the bully message. Who has actually done that and actually earned anyones respect in school? That's not how real life works. More people should be teaching kids to STAND UP FOR THEMSELVES!
victoria Wilburn (victoria-wilburn) Bully Film Review Bully was a good film because it really showed how much bullying affects children everywhere. This movie showed different people all across America; they all dealt with being bullied. The director really wanted people to see and understand that bullying happens everywhere and some of the teachers just don't care or sometimes they don't believe the student when they tell them.In the beginning of the movie they started with a boy named Tyler, he had been bullied to the point where he took his own life. Then they started following Alex, they showed how he was being bullied everywhere at school. Alex never told his parents or even teachers at his school because he thought they wouldn't care or believe him. When Alex's parents would ask him how his day was he would give them a short answer and try to walk away. His mom usually had to force him to tell her that he was being bullied that day. Later they introduced Jameya a fourteen year old girl from Mississippi. She would be bullied everyday on the bus going home from school. One day she stood up and started threatening everyone on the bus. She was sent to jail and had to await trial.In Oklahoma they introduced Kelby, she was lesbian and everyone in her town turned on her. Of course her family stuck by her side the whole time and tried to help her deal with it. At one point a few people from her school decided they were going to run her over with a van. Even her teachers at school "made fun" of Kelby. At the end of the school year her family decided they were going to move so that Kelby could have a decent year in high school.Bully showed how the world can be good and bad. Most of the people in Bully overcame it and tried to make a difference and help fight bullying. Also with the parents that lost their children because they were being bullied.
evrther Bully is a close up at the harsh conditions that many teens face throughout the adolescent life. It provides an inside view on the torment and bullying of kids. Parents, administration, and children are interviewed throughout, providing feedback from the people around the targets themselves. Overall I think the movie was an advocacy piece. Yet I'm not entirely sure it advocated a new plan to stop bullying more than it plainly showed the emotions behind bullied teens. A documentary records events, yes, yet if the director meant for it to create a change than I see no real push for that. It hit me on a whole set of emotional levels yet it did not make me go out with signs and a crowd demanding bullying by stopped. My views in bullying are already set and although this movie may have hurt emotionally, it did not inspire or strengthen my views. Bullying is wrong. Why? Because teenagers become hurt. How? The "how" is what the documentary showed. But it did not show why they were bullied. No bullies were interviewed. No parents of the bullies were interviewed. Where is the other side? Are we supposed to believe that these bullies have no heart and no soul to be bullying someone their own age so harshly? These are kids. People tend to forget that. Where is the footage of the bully's side of the story? The documentary was a doc you would watch if you wanted to cry, not one to be inspired by. Yes, it follows kids around and "documents" their hardships. Yes, they go around interviewing people. But who? And where? Administrators made out to be neglectful, dishonorable people; children to be monsters, and parents to be unapt at parenting. And all in republican red states. It did not get a full cultural view no did it get a full fair view of anyone. Only one side was shown! If it is a documentary, it's meant to DOCUMENT the events! So where are the other half of the events! I just think the film could have provided a larger perspective and a wider range of information, specifically including the bully' side of things. It falls short in those categories, which in my opinion, basically qualifies a documentary to be one. Emotionally it hit all the right spots. But. That's. It.
Tss5078 Today kids are killing themselves and each other at an alarming rate. The one thing all these cases seem to have in common is bullying. There was bullying when I was a kid, but 3 PM meant the end of the trouble. We had the rest of the day, the weekend, and the summer to recover. The advent of social media and cell phones has made the respite obsolete, as now, bullies can torture their victims 24/7. Bully is an award winning documentary that looks at the problems of bullying and shows the effects it has on children's lives. What I like about this film is that it showed a whole group of students from different economic, social, and ethnic backgrounds. What I took away is that anyone who is even slightly different in anyway, could be a target. What I didn't like was the solutions the film offers. Their solution is to tell someone and to stand up for kids you see being bullied, but anyone who has been bullied will tell you that those are not good ideas. Often times telling someone will anger the bully and make it worse, and as for standing up for other kids, often times that makes someone who wasn't previous bullied, a target. I think the answer is two-fold, in that first, parents need to tell their kids, from a very earlier age, that being unique, different, and even weird are admirable qualities in a person. I also believe the schools need to be tougher, because honestly, does anyone really think that giving a bully detention, telling them they're not nice, and that their hurting other kids really does anything? I think bullies need a taste of their own medicine, to feel those powerful emotions for even for just one day. You can talk until you're blue in the face, but you don't really know what something is like until you've experienced it for yourself.