The Kids Are Alright (1979)
The Who Films

Description

Through concert performances and interviews, this film offers us an "inside look" at this famous rock group, "The Who". It captures their zany craziness and outrageous antics from the initial formation of the group to its major hit "Who Are You", and features the last performance of drummer keith Moon just prior to his death.

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The Who

Collected reviews and ratings

10 digitallyobsessed.com | Jeff Rosado

In the case of The Kids Are Alright, I'll rank director Jeff Stein's 1979 masterpiece at the top of the pops as the Hard Day's Night of musical documentaries. Like that film, Kids has a reckless energy, spirit, and feel all its own.
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10 Entertainment Insiders | Rusty White

I've waited for years for someone to release this movie on DVD. Thanks to Pioneer, we can have a rockin' good holiday. Stick this one in your headbanger's stocking and the kid will be alright.
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10 TV Guide

Every band should have a fan like Jeff Stein, who compiled this scrapbook of The Who. Fans will be delighted with the range of clips (including new concert footage) showing the British band at its anarchic, sarcastic, roaring best.
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10 Amazon user reviews

One of the best rock documentaries ever made.
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9.2 The Onion A.V. Club | Noel Murray

The structure of the 1979 Who documentary The Kids Are Alright is so perfectly useful that it's amazing more rock filmmakers haven't adopted it.
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9.1 DVD Verdict | Bill Gibron

The Kids Are Alright personifies the power and presence of The Who, and even without a linear narrative or classic concert hook, this is one of the best rock and roll movies ever.
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8.0 DVD Times | Eamonn McCusker

The Kids Are Alright is a great way to look back on the fury, the dazzling rock operas and the Union Jack jackets from when The Who still meant a four-piece piercing 12" speaker bins with the distant end of a Rickenbacker.
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