Movie Description

Underground U.S.A.

(1980)

Overview

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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Facts

Original TitleUnderground U.S.A.

Status Released

Release Information

  • 1980-11-06

Original LanguageEnglish

Runtime 01h 25m

Production CompaniesNew Line Cinema

Genres

  • Drama