Rich Kids (film)

Rich Kids is a 1979 American comedy-drama film directed by Robert M. Young and starring Trini Alvarado and Jeremy Levy.

Vincent Canby of The New York Times called the film a "beautifully acted, sometimes very funny new comedy" that "observes its characters with sensitivity as well as humor.

"[7] Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times called the film "exactly what it set out to be, a nice little picture, refreshing and unimposing as a new wine and with a very pleasant aftertaste.

"[9] Jack Kroll of Newsweek called the film "a stylish, affectionate look at the great American institution of divorce among the affluent ... Twelve-year-old Trini Alvarado and 14-year-old Jeremy Levy are very appealing and directed well by Young: their half-forlorn, half-cynical sagacity is funny and touching, and their friendship, with its tentative sexuality, is the realest relationship in the movie.

"[10] Tom Milne of The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote, "Rich Kids must have seemed like a good idea at the time, contrasting the innocent candour of childhood mendacity with the altogether more harmful adult variety.