1983 · drama · punk · cult
Suburbia
Directed by Penelope Spheeris1h 34m1983
When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like a family until a tragedy tears them apart.
Our read: Suburbia (1983) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded drama · punk · cult entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, measured drama / punk, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
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