Its sincere sympathy for the runaway kids is what elevates this standard rebellious teen flick above many others in this genre.
Suburbia (1983)
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Reviews Counted:6
Fresh:5
Rotten:1
Average Rating:5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: "Suburbia" is director Penelope Spheeris's study of the Los Angeles punk rock scene in the early 1980s. The story focuses on a disenchanted teenager named Evan who falls in with "The Rejected... "Suburbia" is director Penelope Spheeris's study of the Los Angeles punk rock scene in the early 1980s. The story focuses on a disenchanted teenager named Evan who falls in with "The Rejected - TRs," a group of punks who live as squatters in an abandoned shack by the side of the highway. Evan and his younger brother leave their broken home in an attempt to escape their alcoholic father. With the TRs, the boys find companionship and a strange kind of harmony. But this peaceful idyll comes to an end, when a local vigilante group decides that their neighborhood problems are the punks' fault and tries to drive the group out of the neighborhood. [More]
Starring: Chris Pederson, Bill Coyne, Jennifer Clay, Timothy Eric O'Brien
Starring: Chris Pederson, Bill Coyne, Jennifer Clay, Timothy Eric O'Brien, Flea
Director: Penelope Spheeris
Director: Penelope Spheeris
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Reviews for Suburbia
This drama (aka The Wild Side), the first of Spheeris' two youth movies of the 1980s, concerns angry boys whose rebelliousness in reflected in cutting their hair instead of growing it long; the mood is right, the text is not.
"I was a good filmmaker ... before I sold out," says Penelope Spheeris on her audio commentary, and it's tough not to appreciate the gal's candor.
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