IMDb plot summary: An intimate look at young Hollywood starlets growing up in the 1990s, using hundreds of hours of footage captured by Soleil Moon Frye.
Directed by Soleil Moon Frye.
Kid 90 is a documentary focusing on 80s and 90s child star Soleil Moon Frye and her life growing up in the spotlight. Not only was she in the spotlight with her acting work, but she also had a video camera of her own and obsessively documented her and her friends' life. As an adult, Frye watches her old videos, reads her old diaries, and interviews her childhood friends to provide commentary on life as a teenager in the public eye at the turn of the millennium. It's fun to see clips of her hanging out with friends as a youngster, especially the ones who went on to become superstars (a very young Leonardo DiCaprio appears a few times). These candid videos show so clearly that these trendy young actors were still just goofy teenagers, as of course they were, with all the emotions that come along with that. The film works great as a time capsule of that era of early-to-mid 90s tech kids. Where it falters is in Frye's attempts to make this a thoughtful film about friendship or loss. There's not much of a clear throughline or end goal in her searching through her past records, so it ends up coming across as more meandering than anything. Fortunately, it's short, so the time capsule nature carries it along pretty well.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Kid 90 < Dark and Stormy Night
Kid 90 > The Lorax (1972)
Kid 90 < National Treasure
Kid 90 > Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Kid 90 > Genius
Kid 90 < Birdman of Alcatraz
Kid 90 > The Dirty Dozen
Kid 90 > Lolita (1997)
Kid 90 > Stephen King's The Stand
Kid 90 < Rigoletto
Kid 90 > Prisoners
Final spot: #2196 out of 3422, or 36%.
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