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.
Direction
Spheeris blends narrative with documentary vérité seamlessly.
Acting
Flea's unhinged energy steals every scene he's in.
Production
Shot in real abandoned suburb with real homeless kids.
Director
Penelope Spheeris
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Spheeris cast many actual street kids; Flea was living in his car during filming. She found him at a Circle Jerks show.
Part of Spheeris's 'Los Angeles punk trilogy' between The Decline of Western Civilization and Dudes, capturing Reagan-era youth abandonment before it was sanitized.
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