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Format: VHS
Apr 1999
Rated R
Recording Mode: Stereo
123 min.
Color
Extra Info: Warner Brothers Hits
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Movie Description
Richard Linklater's fascination with suburban American youth is brought to the screen once again with this adaptation of Eric Bogosian's stage play. The story follows a group of unmotivated high school graduates who spend their days and nights getting drunk and hanging out in front of their small town's local convenience store. Jeff (Giovanni Ribisi) is the cynical and bitter boyfriend of Sooze (Amie Carey), a performance artist who is planning on moving to New York City to escape the confines of Burnfield. Buff (Steve Zahn) is an energetic goofball who drinks and eats to excess along with Tim (Nicky Katt), an alcoholic ex-Marine living off checks from the government. One particular night, their former classmate Pony (Jayce Bartok) returns to the parking lot to hang out with the group. Pony has recently hit the big time as a successful musician, which sparks massive friction between the friends. At the same time, the convenience store's clerk, Nazeer (Ajay Naidu), has become fed up with their loitering, causing a confrontation that threatens to end the night in violence. Like DAZED AND CONFUSED and SLACKER, two other portraits of small town American life, Linklater creates a recognizable atmosphere that allows his actors to deliver Bogosian's lines with a realism that is poignant, humorous, and believable.
Synopsis
Richard Linklater's comedy concerns a group of twenty-something Texan suburbanites who coagulate around their local convenience store in anticipation of a high school friend's homecoming after hitting the big time as a rock musician. When he arrives in a super-stretch limousine with a glamorous publicity agent in tow, the friends wonder about their ostensible lack of priorities in life--as do the store's Pakistani clerks. Based on Eric Bogosian's stage play, SUBURBIA is a hysterical, sincere depiction of a group of individuals at a crossroads in their lives.
Film Notes
Theatrical release: February 7, 1997.
SUBURBIA's credits list the film as being shot on location in Burnfield, USA.
Eric Bogosian's original text was directed for the stage by Robert Falls at the Lincoln Center Theater in New York City during the summer of 1994.
Industry Reviews
"...A brooding, incisive comedy....[Bogosian's] dialogue is rich and flavorful, [and] avid at capturing the pungent nuances of slang..."
Variety - Godfrey Cheshire (10/14/1996)
"...Mr. Bogosian's venomously funny play, which he himself adapted for the screen, is given warmth and generosity by Mr. Linklater..."
New York Times - Janet Maslin (02/07/1997)
"...Spybey is particularly affecting..."
Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Schwarzbaum (02/07/1997)
"...The movie is dark, intense and disturbing..."
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (03/07/1997)
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