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Directed by Gregg Araki | 83 minutes | R 18+ | Opening Night
6.30pm (8pm), Friday, 17 November | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes
A heterosexual movie by Gregg Araki... screening from a newly restored, director-approved 4K scan.
Jordan White (James Duval) and Amy Blue (Rose McGowan), two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red (Jonathon Schaech). Together, the threesome embarks on a sex and violence-filled journey through a United States of psychos and quickie marts. Premiering at the 1995 edition of the Sundance Film Festival and attaining near-instantaneous cult status, the second entry in Gregg Araki's Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy has long been marred by studio intervention, with only a heavily cut, heavily compromised version of the film available worldwide. No longer, as the film has recently been restored in its full, uncut form, with a fresh, gorgeous new scan of the original elements.
"A major artistic leap forward... a twisted pastiche of science fiction, nihilistic road movie and teen angst filtered with dead pan comedy and unique commentary on the depravity of modern America... [Rose McGowan] steals the show as the foul mouthed, morally aimless femme fatale on crystal meth and Diet Coke."
- Ricky da Conceicao, Sound on Sight
Country: USA
Year: 1995
Language: English