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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA talent-challenged girl tries to promote herself to stardom in New York's waning punk music world.A talent-challenged girl tries to promote herself to stardom in New York's waning punk music world.A talent-challenged girl tries to promote herself to stardom in New York's waning punk music world.
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Joni Ruth White
- Landlady
- (as Robynne White)
Ada McSpade
- Rasta
- (as Ade McSpade)
Ed French
- Horror Movie Sequence
- (as Edward E. French)
Alan Woolf
- Pimp
- (as Wolf Alan)
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- QuizDirector Susan Seidelman told her actress Susan Berman to see the Federico Fellini film Le notti di Cabiria (1957) before beginning to research her role.
- BlooperIn end of film when the girl gets ejected from the club by bouncers the boom mic is visible.
- ConnessioniFeatured in Desperately Seeking Susan & Richard (2004)
- Colonne sonoreThe Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness
Written by Bill Million (uncredited) and Glenn Mercer (uncredited)
Performed by The Feelies
From the album "Crazy Rhythms" (1980)
Recensione in evidenza
Things to be aware of: This movie is a downer.
This movie is interminably slow at times. Feel free to skip forward with the remote. There is not a lot of plot to miss.
Having offered those two disclaimers, this movie is definitely worth watching if you are inclined towards depressing tales of urban outcasts. Like most, this one centers around a subculture, but is really about the kind of tragic dreamers that seem drawn to failure like moths to a porch light.
What makes this story so compelling in spite of the rather amateurish acting and film-making is the gradual, offhand, and absolutely realistic ways in which the different characters casually dig themselves into ever more inescapable holes.
This is a story not about the 80s or punk rock, it's a story about young people with unfocused ambition who are sucked in by the glamor of the scene, whatever it may be. These are the fashion victims we've all known: people who have a new best friend every week, with whom are going to write a screenplay, go on a road trip, start a band, whatever. The people who are too busy and too cool to be cared about unless you're going to make them famous, people who do not realize that the glittering lights of the city at night are just stores and bars, who keep thinking that one of them is going to turn out to be magic, who see everyday life as some kind of hoax that they won't be conned into falling for.
What is beautiful about "Smithereens" is the perfect depiction of the blind, frantic pursuit of a better, purer, more exciting life that leads to the opposite. The sad, romantic naiveté that looks for rescue in a bar at 2am is a target for every kind of leech whose belief in magic has burned out and turned to cynical opportunism. The neophyte victims gradually and seamlessly become predators themselves, preying on others who are looking for late-night magic. Dreams of romance, fame, and adventure become grubbing squabbles over sex and money and these dreamers don't even see it happening until, disdainful of everything, they end up with nothing.
This movie is interminably slow at times. Feel free to skip forward with the remote. There is not a lot of plot to miss.
Having offered those two disclaimers, this movie is definitely worth watching if you are inclined towards depressing tales of urban outcasts. Like most, this one centers around a subculture, but is really about the kind of tragic dreamers that seem drawn to failure like moths to a porch light.
What makes this story so compelling in spite of the rather amateurish acting and film-making is the gradual, offhand, and absolutely realistic ways in which the different characters casually dig themselves into ever more inescapable holes.
This is a story not about the 80s or punk rock, it's a story about young people with unfocused ambition who are sucked in by the glamor of the scene, whatever it may be. These are the fashion victims we've all known: people who have a new best friend every week, with whom are going to write a screenplay, go on a road trip, start a band, whatever. The people who are too busy and too cool to be cared about unless you're going to make them famous, people who do not realize that the glittering lights of the city at night are just stores and bars, who keep thinking that one of them is going to turn out to be magic, who see everyday life as some kind of hoax that they won't be conned into falling for.
What is beautiful about "Smithereens" is the perfect depiction of the blind, frantic pursuit of a better, purer, more exciting life that leads to the opposite. The sad, romantic naiveté that looks for rescue in a bar at 2am is a target for every kind of leech whose belief in magic has burned out and turned to cynical opportunism. The neophyte victims gradually and seamlessly become predators themselves, preying on others who are looking for late-night magic. Dreams of romance, fame, and adventure become grubbing squabbles over sex and money and these dreamers don't even see it happening until, disdainful of everything, they end up with nothing.
- AllstonRockCity
- 28 mar 2008
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By what name was Smithereens (1982) officially released in India in English?
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