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...essence, Kids is a chase movie about Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick), a sexual specialist: he likes to make it only with virgins. Presumably, this heterosexual chicken hawk is thus spared from contracting any social disease. But Jennie (Chloe Sevigny), who has been only with Telly, tests HIV positive. Which means Telly also has problems. As Jennie tries to find him, she learns that he plans to exercise his deflower power on naive young Darcy (Yakira Peguero). Will Jennie find Telly in time, and if she does, will she care enough to prevent this toxic encounter...
...Onion Weavers get their name? Apparently, the name has something to do with Professor of English and American Literature Leo Damrosch's English 10a onion symbolism, or with wallpaper and Service Merchandise, or with the notions that "onion" sounds like "Union" and that weaving is what we do with our lives...or some combination of the three. Nobody remembers for sure, though some members just don't care anymore--they've argued the various creation myths too many times. "It's like hearing the story of your parents meeting over and over again," says founding member Michelle M. Martin...
Johnny Depp plays Axel, an orphaned fishmonger from New York City. The film opens with what we eventually learn are Axel's favorite dreams of Eskimo fishmongers. Soon, Axel's Uncle Leo (Jerry Lewis) sends his mafia punk son, Paul (Vincent Calo), to fetch Axel from the city to attend Leo's wedding in Arizona. Here, the film leaps into the surreal skies and endless planes of the midwest...
When Uncle Leo makes a deathbed request to Axel, Depp's tears are over-acted, hearkening back to his "21 Jump Street" days...
...Uncle Leo's son, Paul, apes the crop-dusting sequence from Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" far too many times. Elaine tries to run him over in her airplane, milking the circling plane and fleeing victim sequence for its last drop of emotion. The scene exemplifies one of "Arizona Dream's" largest problems: it dwells too long on its once-witty gags...