But the nation's new symbolic face of bullying victims hailed from here. "Bully" introduced the world to Alex Libby, then a 12-year-old at East Middle School when he was filmed throughout the 2009-2010 school year.
observe how the family has picked up the pieces, as the movie does with the Longs, whose eldest child, Tyler, hung himself from a closet shelf. In another case, the filmmakers witness for themselves the abuse of Alex Libby, a kind, taciturn Oklahoman whose face puckers as a result of his premature birth.
At one point in the heartbreaking documentary, Bully, a 12-year-old boy from Sioux City, Iowa, named Alex Libby, is talking about his day on the school bus. Its just another day, we can see, in a lonely hell that shows no signs of ending.
Date: Apr 12, 2012
Category: Entertainment
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'Bully' Re-Rated PG-13: Has the Movie's Ratings Win Broken the MPAA?
The MPAA caved a little as well. It allowed the distributor to leave intact the movie's key scene, in which student Alex Libby is bullied on a school bus, in a rant filled with enough profanity to have earned the film an R-rating on its own. And it allowed TWC to submit a re-edited cut for release e
Date: Apr 07, 2012
Category: Entertainment
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How can 'Bully's' profanity equal 'Saw'-type violence?
One of them is Alex Libby of Sioux City, Iowa. What we watch Alex endure on the school bus and elsewhere in "Bully" is enough to make you scream. The verbal and physical abuse he puts up with, and what his school administrators so blithely underplay, breaks your heart and boils your blood.
Date: Apr 07, 2012
Category: Entertainment
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The Weinstein Company agrees to make some cuts to get 'Bully' a PG-13 rating
had been adamant that no scenes could be cut in order to keep his portrayal of bullying in American schools as realistic as possible. However, he allowed TWC to cut the F-word in a few scenes. The F-word remains in the key scene where Alex Libby is verbally and physically harassed on the school bus.
Date: Apr 07, 2012
Category: Entertainment
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Why a bullied student, a parent and a school official opened their lives to ...
The parents of 12-year-old Alex Libby a gangly, irrepressibly innocent Sioux City boy who has become the de facto face of Bully believed the experience might help their withdrawn son. Alex has Aspergers and at the time of filming was mired in a two-year depression, his mother said.
"Alex Libby gave an impassioned plea and eloquently defended the need for kids to be able to see this movie on their own, not with their parents, because that is the only way to truly make a change," Weinstein said in February.