Suburbia
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1h 35m
Directed by Penelope Spheeris | 95 mins | 1983
After chronicling the LA punk scene in The Decline of Western Civilization, Spheeris delivers the affecting story of desperate teenagers—who adopt the moniker “The Rejected”—who squat in an abandoned house. Their violent struggles to stay one step ahead of the gutter gets a poignant dose of reality from Spheeris’s casting of non-actors, mixed in with concert scenes and Corman-esque exploitation touches.
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