A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.
Hopper's characters are in the realm of the irreparable; if the fervent acting occasionally overheats, the reckless emotions nonetheless convey the authentic struggle of personal experience.
– Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 May 2011
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A genuinely alarming miasma of misplaced sexuality and rock 'n' roll fetishism.
– J. Hoberman,
Village Voice,
31 May 2011
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Hopper keeps things light and off-the-cuff, allowing his performers free rein...
– Keith Uhlich,
Time Out New York,
1 Jun 2011
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In the late Dennis Hopper's mind a better film than Bertolucci's Luna and his own Easy Rider, the actor-director's brilliant, still shockingly subversive 1980 cherry bomb is as sad and unsettling as dysfunctional-family dramas come.