A narcissistic runaway engages in a number of parasitic relationships amongst members of New York's waning punk scene.
Direction
Seidelman's scrappy 16mm captures dying NYC punk.
Acting
Susan Berman's Wren is unbearably real and pathetic.
Production
Shot on weekends over two years—pure desperation energy.
Director
Susan Seidelman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the first American indie film invited to Cannes—Susan Seidelman was 29 and had never directed before. Studio heads literally walked out of the screening.
Richard Hell plays Eric as a barely-fictionalized version of himself—the real Voidoids frontman was already legendary for being impossible to work with. Casting him was either genius or masochism.
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