Kicks
An exciting adventure by a 15-year-old teenager named Brandon. Brandon once decided that he needed a pair of sports shoes. His ambition was to get those fresh sports shoes he could buy. It is the shoes that enable him to escape the reality of being poor and bring him the opposite sex as well as his distant friends. When Brandon got the pottery in a short time, things turned upside down when Fabo immediately grabbed him, as Brandon tried to recover those shoes that seemed his only hope in life.
31 August 1992, Monterey, California, USA
2 March 1994, Los Angeles, California, USA
16 February 1974, Oakland, California, USA
29 October 1996, New York City, New York, USA
2 April 1992, St. Louis Park, Minnesota, USA
October 03, 2016
Poignant, mature indie drama about a teen and his sneakers.
September 29, 2016
Kicks is tense, horrifying and hypnotic: a stunning premiere from a new filmmaking talent to follow.
March 22, 2017
It's about manhood, growing up in the hood, and the inner struggles you don't see played out on the news... It's not a perfect movie by any means, but I'm interested to see what Tipping does next.
September 15, 2016
Tipping's admittedly artful style is relatively ambiguous, focusing mostly on cheap visceral thrills, to the point where it's impossible to glean what he thinks about the depths to which Brandon will go.
April 12, 2017
Still, what Tipping masters perfectly in the film is the constant ebb and flow of humor, and darkness, that runs through the narrative that is inner city boyhood.
September 09, 2016
Kicks is not without its flaws, but even the flaws show Tipping's willingness to take risks, to go for the big gesture and to go for it honestly.
September 22, 2016
The motif of a faceless, imaginary spaceman following the boy around is overly precious, but what does work is Tipping's focus on sensitive boys hardening in reaction to their father figures (or lack thereof).
February 07, 2017
A dangerous quest for a stolen pair of shoes becomes an odyssey through ravaged California minority neighborhoods where drugs are omnipresent and violence is never far away. It is a tale of lost innocence, absent fathers and rites of passage.
September 16, 2016
Tipping throws all sorts of tricks at the screen, most of which don't work.
September 08, 2016
The characters have enough dimension to avoid appearing to be symbols of a social tragedy, and the movie's relative gentleness makes the harsher realities of Brandon's world all the more distressing.
September 23, 2016
Tipping, who also co-wrote the polished script, captures this unique mix of adolescent anxiety, urban decay and societal friction in a remarkably confident fashion ...
