Fresh
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.
Nathan Rabin, AV Club
Suburbia
The kids from... The Wild Side... The Side You've Never Seen.
1984 · 1h 34m · R
Drama, Music, Thriller
Directed by
Penelope Spheeris
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Suburbia
Overview
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.
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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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91%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
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.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
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