Thematically picking up where his controversial 1995 feature debut, "Kids," left off but adding their seriously messed-up parents to the mix, the unquestionably unrated film also serves as something of a motion picture companion to Clark's provocative photographic collections, "Tulsa" and, particularly, "Teenage Lust." In be-tween are story lines involving a boy who's making regular bedside visits to his girlfriend's mom; another boy with a bullying, macho dad who, it turns out, is harboring taboo desires; and, in a sequence that's about as graphic as graphic gets, another boy who's well-versed in the practice of auto-erotic asphyxiation decides to stab his sleeping grandfather in the neck for cheating at Scrabble.

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