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'Toddlers': Ultra-violent gang movie starring children as young as 12 draws protest

by theGrio | January 6, 2012 at 12:01 PM
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From Daily Mail UK: An ultra-violent movie that features children as young as 12 murdering their way through the streets of New York has been branded ‘disgusting’.

Anti-violence campaigners claim the film, Toddlers, glorifies guns and have called for it to be banned.

Set in Harlem, the movie- – released on DVD last month — follows the exploits of a boy who has to fend for himself after his drug dealer father is murdered. The film’s trailer features children engaged in multiple shoot-outs, drug-taking and sex scenes.

But director M5 – real name Termaine Brown — claims Toddlers merely reflects the reality of what is happening in inner-city neighborhoods such as Harlem.

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