Suburbia
Short description
Suburbia follows Evan, a teenager worn down by tension at home and a feeling that he does not matter. He leaves and falls in with a group of young runaways and punks who have made a home together in an abandoned house in a working-class Los Angeles suburb. They build a makeshift family around shared music, squatting and looking out for one another, while the local residents want them gone. The clash between the two sides grows increasingly hostile, and the group's closeness is tested by tragedy.
Penelope Spheeris directed and wrote the film, which came after her 1969 debut Uncle Tom's Fairy Tales and before Dudes, Wayne's World and The Decline of Western Civilization Part III. Roger Corman and Bert L. Dragin produced it for New World Pictures on a budget of about one million dollars. The cast includes Chris Pedersen, Bill Coyne, Jennifer Clay, Timothy Eric O'Brien, Wade Walston and Flea. Mixing drama with music and thriller elements, the film draws on the early-1980s punk scene and the hard realities facing teenagers on the margins. On IMDb it holds a 6.9 rating from roughly 6,700 votes, while on TMDB it has a 6.6 from about 100 votes, indicating a modest but durable following.
What's left behind the scenes
- Of everyone who appeared in the film, only Chris Pedersen and Bill Coen were professional actors.
- The child actors performed the stunts themselves.
- Filming took 6 weeks.
- The scene where Razzle shoots the cockroach cost $50 and was the most expensive in the film. The cockroach was specially trained and had its own trainer.
- When the kids are driving in the car, Jack says “Flea,” referring to Razzle. Razzle is played by Michael “Flea” Balzari, the bassist for Red Hot Chili Peppers.
- The location of the “outcasts’” settlement was slated for demolition to make way for a highway, but the highway couldn’t be completed for almost 15 years. The expressway that eventually appeared there was featured in Jan de Bont’s action film “Speed” (1994).
- To enhance the realism, Penelope Spheeris cast real teenagers from the street and punks.
- Many of the cases depicted in the film are based on real-life events that the screenwriter and director, Penelope Spheeris, learned about from local newspapers.
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