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Directed by | Lee Hirsch |
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Cinematography | Lee Hirsch |
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Distributed by | The Weinstein Company |
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Running time | 99 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1.1 million |
Box office | $3.6 million[1] |
Bully (originally titled The Bully Project) is a 2011 American documentary film directed by Lee Hirsch and produced by Hirsch and Cynthia Lowen. It documents the lives of five students who face bullying on a daily basis in U.S. schools. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 23, 2011.
On the film's official website, the filmmakers promoted Bully as a tool to help combat bullying and facilitate an anti-bullying movement,[2] but these goals were jeopardized by its initial R rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. Following a failed appeal of the rating, the Weinstein Company released the film unrated in theaters in the United States on March 30, 2012.[3] After some profanity was removed, the film was re-rated PG-13, and this version of the film was released in theaters on April 13. The PG-13 version of the film was released on Blu-ray and DVD nearly a year later, on February 12, 2013.