Metal Skin (Speed) (1994)
Release Date: Sep 14, 1994 Wide
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The one-upmanship of middle-aged men, bragging to one another that "when I was a kid, I was so poor that..." will never happen to Joe, even though the stories he could tell would put them to shame. In this melodramatic youth story, Joe lives with his demented father in a shanty, and he has been unemployed for a very long time. Eventually he gets a new job and, along with it, a social life of sorts. He would like to make some headway with either of the cute girls at work, but every time he tries,
Sep 14, 1994 Wide
Apr 25, 2006
Cast
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Aden Young
Joe -
Tara Morice
Savina -
Nadine Garner
Roslyn -
Ben Mendelsohn
Dazey -
Chantal Contouri
Savin's Mother -
Petru Gheorghiu
Pop -
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One of the strongest things in Metal Skin's bag of tricks is its un-Hollywood unpredictability.
The entire story is very Shakespearian in its depiction of tragedy touching the lives of all four central characters with varying degrees of destruction resulting from it. No one comes out at the end unscarred and some relationships are ruined forever.
A dark, arresting ode to suburban hopelessness
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