'Billy': A different kid, a different doc.

The Star (Amman, Jordan) | June 30, 2007 | Copyright

By Gina Piccalo Billy Price is the weird kid at his high school, the one who walks funny and sits alone at lunch. But get him talking, as first-time director Jennifer Venditti did in her debut documentary "Billy the Kid", and this gangly 15-year-old from rural Maine reveals a startling sensitivity to the world and a sad wisdom about his place in it. "I try to look all tough and cold and emotionless on the outside, but the eyes give it away," Billy says in the film. "If you look in the eyes, you'll see a kid that's trying to be what he'll never be." The film, which opens at ...

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