Bully (2011 film)

Bully
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Lee Hirsch
Written by	Cynthia Lowen Lee Hirsch
Produced by	Lee Hirsch Cynthia Lowen
Cinematography	Lee Hirsch
Edited by	Lindsay Utz Jenny Golden
Music by	Ion Furjanic Bishop Allen
Production companies	Cinereach Where We Live Films
Distributed by	The Weinstein Company
Release dates	April 23, 2011 (2011-04-23) (Tribeca Film Festival) March 30, 2012 (2012-03-30) (United States)
Running time	99 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1.1 million
Box office	$3.6 million[1]

Bully (originally titled The Bully Project) is a 2011 American documentary film directed by Lee Hirsch and produced by Hirsch and Cynthia Lowen. It documents the lives of five students who face bullying on a daily basis in U.S. schools. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 23, 2011.

On the film's official website, the filmmakers promoted Bully as a tool to help combat bullying and facilitate an anti-bullying movement,^[2] but these goals were jeopardized by its initial R rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. Following a failed appeal of the rating, the Weinstein Company released the film unrated in theaters in the United States on March 30, 2012.^[3] After some profanity was removed, the film was re-rated PG-13, and this version of the film was released in theaters on April 13. The PG-13 version of the film was released on Blu-ray and DVD nearly a year later, on February 12, 2013.