Totally F***ed Up
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1h 19m
Directed by Gregg Araki | 79 mins | 1993
The first film of Araki’s “Teenage Apocalypse” trilogy, which the director once described as a “cross between avant-garde experimental cinema and a queer John Hughes flick,” "Totally F***ed Up" focuses on six gay adolescents who, rejected by their families, struggle to form a makeshift family unit while contending with financial hard times and roving gay-bashers.
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