The Doom Generation
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Short description
Amy Blue and her boyfriend Jordan White are restless teenagers drifting through California in an old car when they pick up Xavier Red, a drifter who pushes his way into their lives. After Xavier kills a convenience store clerk during a stop, the three are forced to flee, and their aimless drive turns into a cross-country flight marked by sex, sudden violence and a mounting body count wherever they pause.
Gregg Araki wrote and directed the film, which sits between The Living End and Nowhere in his filmography. Rose McGowan plays Amy, James Duval plays Jordan and Johnathon Schaech plays Xavier, with Cress Williams, Dustin Nguyen and Lauren Tewes among the credited cast. The screenplay is Araki's own, and he produced alongside Andrea Sperling and Yves Marmion for Why Not Productions, Desperate Pictures, Blurco and UGC, a French and American co-production that had a limited international release.
On IMDb the film holds a 6.2 rating from around 20,000 votes, and on TMDB a 6.5 from roughly 329 votes. A critics' rating of 5 out of 10 from 40 reviews places it below what general audiences have given it, a gap consistent with a low-budget independent film whose explicit content and confrontational tone divided reviewers while finding a durable audience. Eighty-four minutes long and released in October 1995, it stands as an early, formative entry in Araki's run of nineties features.
What's left behind the scenes
- Rose McGowan landed the role in the film by casually running into director Gregg Araki near a gym.
- Jordan Ladd was initially cast in the role of Amy, played by Rose McGowan, but her mother, Cheri Ladd, objected at the last moment (disliking the amount of sex and nudity the role entailed). This is signaled by the absence of Cheri Ladd's name in the credits' acknowledgments section and Jordan Ladd's inclusion among those receiving special thanks. Director Gregg Araki and Cheri Ladd later became friends, and Jordan Ladd appeared in his 1997 film, 'Nowhere'.
- The names of the main characters – Amy Blue and Jordan White – were inspired by Mark Beyer’s early 1990s comic 'Amy and Jordan,' whose characters frequently found themselves in dangerous or grotesque situations.
- The film was shot in January 1995 – almost entirely at night and in remote areas of Los Angeles. The footage from the first day was accidentally ruined in development, and an earthquake occurred on the second day of filming.
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