Evan and his younger brother leave their broken home and join up with a group of punk rockers in an attempt to escape their alcoholic mother. But their newfound family will be tested when they become the target of Citizens Against Crime, a group of unhappy suburbanites.
30 January 1963
21 March 1964, Los Angeles County, California, USA
5 October 1963, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
8 October 1958, USA
January 08, 2006
"I was a good filmmaker ... before I sold out," says Penelope Spheeris on her audio commentary, and it's tough not to appreciate the gal's candor.
May 20, 2003
Penelope Spheeris's Suburbia is a clear- eyed, compassionate melodrama about a bunch of young dropouts who call themselves ''The Rejected'' or, for short, the TR's.
June 09, 2014
Although hardly believable, the story is effective, making its rather unwholesome characters sympathetic.
June 09, 2014
It still shows enormous empathy and sensitivity in capturing the angst and alienation of American youth, making it seem both rooted in a specific time and place and strangely timeless.
December 20, 2007
Its sincere sympathy for the runaway kids is what elevates this standard rebellious teen flick above many others in this genre.
November 07, 2002
Gritty Los Angeles punk-rock chronicle is ugly, raw and realistic.
May 24, 2003
The film now has a glow of roseate, nostalgic charm -- partly a product of the winning incompetence of most of the performances.
January 26, 2006
A justifiably angry film, fast and full of violent action, though there's plenty of humour too; and the lack of originality is amply compensated for by its manifest sincerity.
February 09, 2007
This drama (aka The Wild Side), the first of Spheeris' two youth movies of the 1980s, concerns angry boys whose rebelliousness in reflected in cutting their hair instead of growing it long; the mood is right, the text is not.
