Andy Warhol's Trash

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Andy Warhol's Trash

1970

1h 43m

Comedy

Drama

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An impotent heroin addict lives with a transvestite who spends time collecting garbage and cruising for sex.

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Diving into the lives of societal outcasts with an intent to shock, this export from the Warhol Factory will reek of trash for some but is a treasure for audiences who have a taste for outré fare.

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Robert Colaciello

Village Voice

Sep 21, 2022

The most out-in-the-open, the most outrageous, and the best Warhol film yet.

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Gene Siskel

Chicago Tribune

Sep 21, 2022

3/4

The Warhol-Morrissey world is a strange one, but in many, ways, especially if taken in infrequent doses, a far more real world than the formula Hollywood drama or comedy. The actors are solidly in touch with their madness and can improvise with wit.

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Kevin Thomas

Los Angeles Times

Sep 21, 2022

It was evident in Flesh that Morrissey was both a more compassionate and more formal filmmaker than Warhol... And now in Trash, he actually has somebody convincingly playing someone other than himself.

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Bill Morrison

News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)

Sep 21, 2022

It's bilge but fascinating bilge and thanks to Miss Woodlawn sometimes very funny, very delightful bilge.

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Charlie Davis

Berkeley Barb

Sep 21, 2022

Trash is Warhol's most entertaining movie to date. It's funny and sad all the way through. It has a kind of Huckleberry Finn mood to it.

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Bernard Drew

Gannett News Service

Sep 21, 2022

It is the sometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic, always powerful study of the garbage some of the beautiful flower children became in their search for truth, love and Darma amid the rubble of the East Village.

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Joshua S

@RT46410974 Mar 28, 2025

Manky muffins and scottish sausage rolls

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Feb 6, 2016

Trash is really, just trash. It's a dark depiction of New York in the late 60s and it's cultural scenes.

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Aug 19, 2015

Cataclysmic sh*t! Absolute drugs, sex & rock 'n roll film minus the rock 'n roll really. I loved it. I love trannies!

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Apr 28, 2014

The first of the trilogy. If Warhol works for you then you'll be all in. I was.

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Jan 9, 2014

Though, most film buffs consider Morrissey's HEAT to be the better his trilogy, it is this film that works best for me. While off-the-wall camp funny, there is a certain highly effective level of desperation in Holly Woodlawn's performance that stays with you. While the "X-rated" infamy of this Cult Classic lingers, this is an oddly moralistic viewpoint coming across at all times. The fringes of late 1960's NYC counter-culture is explored with a sort of perverse judgement. Think John Waters with a societal commentary agenda. This is not satire and despite theatrical turns, TRASH is one potent film about the desperate life of junkies near the dawn of a very different decade. A must see.

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Mar 31, 2013

Still disturbing, still silly after all these years.

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Synopsis

An impotent heroin addict lives with a transvestite who spends time collecting garbage and cruising for sex.

Director: Paul Morrissey
Producer: Andy Warhol
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): May 22, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $5.2K
Runtime: 1h 43m

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