(Underground U.S.A.)

Content: The Sunset Blvd. of underground cinema, and a suitably ambivalent retrospect on the star-game casualties of New York's upper depths, with Patti Astor statuesquely hysterical as a 20-year-old Norma Desmond, made up to recall Edie Sedgwick and surrounded by Warhol's lost children. We've been here before, but without the hindsight: a camera cruise along a hustler's meat-rack, kitchen-talk over cold canned spaghetti, Taylor Mead grimacing in a spastic dance, the silent stud a sullenly passive observer. Mitchell's ear for campy native wit and eye for figures in a loft-scape happily keep at bay the otherwise contagious NY ennui.

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Genres:

Drama

Runtime:

85 minutes

Year:

1980

Directors:

Eric Mitchell

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Production companies:

New Line Cinema

Actors:

Vickie

Kenneth

Frank

Victor

The Room-mate

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