Best/Worst kids in movies?

[trabuquera]

Best ever kid in a movie was this one, in Hector Babenco's PIXOTE. (unfortunately the kid's life went to pieces after his success and like many other Brazilian street kids he died well before his time.)


Next best: lead actor in Bahman Ghobadi's amazing TURTLES CAN FLY - as "Satellite" the all-round fixer, minefield clearer and probable future dictator of Iraqi Kurdistan. Amazing performances from all the child actors in this film in fact.

 

[N_igma]

leonardo dicaprio was really good in something when he was a kid

This Boy's Life?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Charlotte Burke as Anna in Paperhouse captures the cusp between childhood and teenage perfectly.

 

[El Jefe]

the girl in Pan's Labyrinth was fantastic

 

[dodgepot]

yeah. as was the girl in the city of lost children.

 

[Dillinger4]

There's a kid who's in EVERYTHING who I love...
She was in that film where Meg Ryan is an alcoholic...

*imdbs...*

Tina Majorino!

She always makes me cry. She was the one with a map on her back in Waterworld too, I think.

debs!!!!!!

 

[dodgepot]

jodie foster in bugsy malone... disturbingly better than a lot of the others in that

she acts kinda too well compared to the kids play feel of some of the others (which is a lot of the appeal)

yes. she was a proper actress whilst everyone else was fairly hammy around her

 

[Jon-of-arc]

All the kids in Kids, even though most of them weren't kids. The ones who played Harold and Casper were both wicked and are both dead now, as well. Spooky....

The "naughty" one from 13 was quite good, as well. Even if the film was decidedly average and let itself down majorly in its half hearted attempts to shock....

 

[isitme]

All the kids in Kids, even though most of them weren't kids. The ones who played Harold and Casper were both wicked and are both dead now, as well. Spooky....

The "naughty" one from 13 was quite good, as well. Even if the film was decidedly average and let itself down majorly in its half hearted attempts to shock....

I have hair like Casper at the moment

 

[scifisam]

Kids can be awful actors and really bring a film down, but when they're good they're excellent. There don't seem to be many in-betweens.

The kid in the Butcher Boy.

Hayley Mills, especially in Whistle Down the Wind.

The kid in the Piano.


I really, really want to watch Stand By Me now.

 

[Jon-of-arc]

I have hair like Casper at the moment

cool! all I can now imagine is you smacking someone round the face with a skateboard and saying "now get in my way, BITCH!"

And sitting in the bath saying "Isitme, the friendly ghost, the dopest ghost in town. The bitches all love me because I'm Isitme, the dopest ghost around...."

and then, in my darker moments, I imagine you sexually assaulting Chloe whats-her-face and catching the virus....

 

[isitme]

cool! all I can now imagine is you smacking someone round the face with a skateboard and saying "now get in my way, BITCH!"

And sitting in the bath saying "Isitme, the friendly ghost, the dopest ghost in town. The bitches all love me because I'm Isitme, the dopest ghost around...."

and then, in my darker moments, I imagine you sexually assaulting Chloe whats-her-face and catching the virus....

errrr

thanks

 

[electrogirl]

cool! all I can now imagine is you smacking someone round the face with a skateboard and saying "now get in my way, BITCH!"

And sitting in the bath saying "Isitme, the friendly ghost, the dopest ghost in town. The bitches all love me because I'm Isitme, the dopest ghost around...."

and then, in my darker moments, I imagine you sexually assaulting Chloe whats-her-face and catching the virus....

yeah that is....er...cool..

 

[Cid]

Fuck you Jake Lloyd. Fuck you.

 

[electrogirl]

haley joel osmont has moon eyes. do you know what i mean?

 

[Cid]

He's changed a bit:

 

[electrogirl]

thanks my eyes are bleeding.


he still has moon eyes anyway.

 

[isitme]

he still looks really bullyable

 

[Cid]

He has to marry into English Royalty, he'd be perfect.

 

[Y_I_Otter]

Toxic midget.

 

[Cid]

By contrast the Anakin looks like he may have been introduced to the devil's dandruff.

 

[electrogirl]

I don't like the chest hair poking out hayleys top.
or his moon eyes.

 

[electrogirl]

the kid from jerry maguire has turned into a fatter boyd off neighbours.

 

[scifisam]

He's changed a bit:

He kinda looks like he should be handsome, but there's something wrong, and he's not.

I saw this the other day - Neville from the Harry Potter films, when he's not being Neville:

He was probably the only kid actor in the first film who wasn't dreadful, and even then, he was quite bad. Thank God they've improved now!

 

[strung out]

me uncle Gary gave me some good films with kids in. havent seen him for a while though, he moved somewhere like vietnam or something

 

[Cid]

He kinda looks like he should be handsome, but there's something wrong, and he's not.

See this is what I mean when I say he should marry into royalty (or be made an honourable royal) - it's the huge teeth, the vacant gaze, the hair with a life of its own.

 

[isitme]

he's got a nice shaped face but all the features are horrible

i'm sure he'll grow into it tho

 

[electrogirl]

See this is what I mean when I say he should marry into royalty (or be made an honourable royal) - it's the huge teeth, the vacant gaze, the hair with a life of its own.

yeah he's quite ruddy faced too.

 

[electrogirl]

he's got a nice shaped face but all the features are horrible

yup. moon eyes.

 

[strung out]

He's changed a bit:

he looks like an american ji sung park