Excellent but underrated film

Brilliant and touching

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

This movie caught my attention a while ago but because of reviews I was very skeptical about watching it. The movie is a dark look at how far teens will go for their crazy definitions of love. Yes, the acting has its weak points (not so much the two leads but those surrounding them) and yes, it may go a bit over the top, but for those of us that have fallen in love as teens it may ring some bells. It chronicles a relationship from its addictive start to its overdosed finish. Many kids think they have found the one and that no one will ever understand them or love them like this person does. Its a feeling that will make you do nearly anything. While this movie may take that to a level no one ever dreamed about when they met their first boyfriend or girlfriend it does make you realize that teens are volatile, powerful, and capable of things their parents don't want to even think about. This movie takes the viewer to a dark place but take the "excessive and unnecessary" nudity as the reality of teens sex-ting and take into consideration the gore we subject ourselves to when watching Saw, you might find the meaning makes these things less of a draw back and more of a necessary evil when talking about the reality of troubled teens. Its not the end all beat all but its worth a watch.

Saw this movie at the Idaho film festival and it totally blew me away.Here's a review:What do violent and deranged meth-heads, your mother ramming a dildo up the ass of your closet-transvestite father, and the burning flesh of the guy you just ran over in your car all have in common? Why, they're all things you would eagerly capture on film, of course!If you're Jimmy Wright, that is. Edward Furlong co-stars in the film "Jimmy and Judy" as a junior-college dropout plagued by the deceptively normal facade of suburbia and obsessed with his hand-held video camera.Jimmy's camera thus becomes the lens for the entire film. Fortunately, directors Randall Rubin and Jon Schroder have crafted "Jimmy and Judy" with a cogent plot, raw, fearless script, and superb casting that prevail over the shaky, blurry, amateur style that made "The Blair Witch Project" so irritating.At its core, "Jimmy and Judy" is a tale of luckless lovers. Jimmy has loved Judy (Rachael Bella) since childhood, and has the tapes to prove it. The timid Judy is likewise an outcast at her high school. When Jimmy, never one to let social norms hinder his impulses, takes revenge on Judy's bullies and shows her the footage, she is wooed and the two embark on an anarchic ride through the forgotten states of Middle America.Throughout their misadventures- ones involving drug abuse, sexual violence, and gunplay- Jimmy and Judy manage to retain an innocence not afforded to characters in flicks with similar concepts such as "Natural Born Killers." What provides this naive sincerity is the rare chemistry Furlong and Bella invoke coupled with the film's intimate home-video style. By the time Jimmy plugs a cop in the head in a frantic getaway scene, we're rooting for the pair and blaming it all on bad luck and the simple desire to not be alone.In a word, "Jimmy and Judy" is ballsy. Not many indie films making claims for edginess have pulled off this sort of material with such honesty. A good example is Jimmy's scene where he first meets the messiah of the cultish smack-factory commune. While "Uncle Rodney" (William Sadler), clad in tattoos and ripped flannel, preaches his thoughts on uniting the "garbage culture" of society in his dark, tattered shack, he brandishes a knife and pets the hair of a tweaked-out junkie aching for the fix only he can give. Amid this resonance of dueling banjos and the dark underbelly of American life, we are bizarrely gripped by the depravity. That something so far gone from most audiences' experience also rings so true is a testament to the film's finesse.The filming technique is a theme that's worth examining from a larger outlook. Jimmy and Judy alternate handling the camera, documenting everything from a genuinely sweet haircut to an attempted rape. At first, Judy repeatedly asks, "Why do you have to film everything?" Jimmy just wants to document all the important parts of his life. But in today's world of MySpace and Facebook photo narcissism and a grand jury sending journalist Josh Wolf to prison for not yielding videotapes of a protest, how much photo documentation is too much? Are we on digital media overload? The filmmakers take an opportunity to pose contemporary questions with this unique narrative.Aside from any politicized tangents, Jimmy and Judy are at the heart of the film. We pity them for their bad decisions, but that pity is accompanied by empathy and endearment. Aw, c'mon Judy, snorting drugs isn't good, we find ourselves thinking. Watching their devolution becomes as emotional as if we were bumping along down lost roads with the collapsing pair themselves. It's not a film for the squeamish, but what truly good love story can go without this much gore, tragedy and risk? This movie has a weird way of sucking you in and making you forget that you are watching a scripted film and not someone's home movies. Edward Furlong is at his best and won a best acting award for his performance. This movie is hard core indie, so don't bother to watch if you are expecting some cheesy happy ending and are not prepared to be shocked.Jimmy and Judy, for better or worse, is in your face and not afraid to to be there. Jimmy and Judy is all sex, drugs, and more sex and drugs. This is way more like Sid and Nancy, not Alex and Emma.

When I saw this title I thought, Woo hoo another crappy film to watch and then to comment on, but what I didn't know was the reality of this movie was so real that it made me think really hard of what this world is like for kids who are not blessed to have parents and friend's to care for them.After watching this movie I found my self in a daze, sorta like a trance (something I always find myself in when watching these kind of movies') and I knew that all the things that Jimmy and Judy went through were things that could and DO happen to teenagers ever day. And to put things into perspective and to tell a beautiful story of two VERY misunderstood kids and their problems with everyday life. I now know that life can be hell and that without someone to talk about it to you, you can really go crazy.People need to look outside of their own home and see what happened's when kids (mostly teenagers) can do with one gun a camera and a misunderstood life.

Jimmy and Judy,a well-made semi-remake of "Badlands" with some "Natural Born Killers" thrown in for good measure, isn't a bad time at the movies, to be sure, but also isn't near as good as it should be.I caught the world premiere of this movie at SF Indie, and I can certainly see why they picked it - edgy, counterculture, chock full of sex and violence. It's also very well acted, particularly by Furlong, and has terrific sound design. But ultimately, the film goes nowhere, with characters that neither illicit compassion nor interest, and a story which seems to meander, predictability, to a place that has nothing really to do with either Jimmy or Judy. We never really understand their "angst" the way we should. Apparently, just because they're young, sweaty, unkempt, swear and screw a lot, they get to be angry and rebellious.The one moderately original thing about the film is that Jimmy videotapes everything (this is not a spoiler - it's evident in the trailer and from frame 1 of the movie), and this is used as a narrative device ala "Blair Witch". Kinda nifty, but still, nothing else in the movie - either Furlong's character nor the story, pay this off in any way, and ultimately, it doesn't make sense.If you like angst for angst's sake, this is for you. But if you want to be engaged by story or character, you may do best to look elsewhere.