Suburbia
1984, 94 minutes, Rated M
Written and directed by Penelope Spheeris. Suburbia - with great performances by young amateur actors - is a gritty, revealing and provocative depiction of punk sub-culture in the early 1980s.
Escaping from a broken home and an alcoholic father, teenager Evan (Bill Coyne) and his younger brother fall in with a group of young punks who call themselves 'The Rejected'.
These runaways - based on Spheeris' own observations of teen delinquents - hold on to each other like family, living in abandoned houses away from the society that despises them, including a local vigilante group that blames them for all the ills in the community. A highly realistic portrait of the social disintegration underpinning punk-rock cuture in the early 80s.
- Director:
- Penelope Spheeris [9],
- Starring:
- Bill Coyne [1], Chris Pedersen [1], Timothy O'Brien [1], Jennifer Clay [1], Wade Walston [1],
- Screen Formats:
- Full Frame 1.33:1
- Language and Sound:
- English Dolby Digital Stereo
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