The film was pulled from circulation in 1990, after a cease-and-desist order for unauthorized use of The Carpenters' music. As of 2016, sale or distribution of the film remains illegal. Hundreds of bootleg copies have been sold.
Ranked #45 on Entertainment Weekly's "Top 50 Cult Films of All-Time"
Ken- and Barbie-style dolls play all of the parts.
Todd Haynes made the film while he was completing his MFA at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
Filmed over a ten-day period at Bard College in the summer of 1985.
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