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Suburbia
In an attempt to have a good life and get rid of the abuse he receives at his house, Evan, a young courageous guy suffers from the miserable life he has, takes his younger brother and flees, where he joins a group of orphans and befriends them, but once, incidents come to challenge him, as he begins a violent fight for survival.
10 June 1953, Denver, Colorado, USA
22 September 1935, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
5 October 1963, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
8 October 1958, USA
21 March 1964, Los Angeles County, California, USA
May 24, 2003
The film now has a glow of roseate, nostalgic charm -- partly a product of the winning incompetence of most of the performances.
December 20, 2007
Its sincere sympathy for the runaway kids is what elevates this standard rebellious teen flick above many others in this genre.
January 08, 2006
"I was a good filmmaker ... before I sold out," says Penelope Spheeris on her audio commentary, and it's tough not to appreciate the gal's candor.
January 26, 2006
A justifiably angry film, fast and full of violent action, though there's plenty of humour too; and the lack of originality is amply compensated for by its manifest sincerity.
November 07, 2002
Gritty Los Angeles punk-rock chronicle is ugly, raw and realistic.
February 09, 2007
This drama (aka The Wild Side), the first of Spheeris' two youth movies of the 1980s, concerns angry boys whose rebelliousness in reflected in cutting their hair instead of growing it long; the mood is right, the text is not.
May 20, 2003
Penelope Spheeris's Suburbia is a clear- eyed, compassionate melodrama about a bunch of young dropouts who call themselves ''The Rejected'' or, for short, the TR's.
June 09, 2014
It still shows enormous empathy and sensitivity in capturing the angst and alienation of American youth, making it seem both rooted in a specific time and place and strangely timeless.
June 09, 2014
Although hardly believable, the story is effective, making its rather unwholesome characters sympathetic.