Release Date

06 Nov, 1980

Runtime

01:25: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

The end of a superstar.

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.

Original Title

Underground U.S.A.

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Actors

Patti Astor

Rene Ricard

Tom Wright

Eric Mitchell

Jackie Curtis

Cookie Mueller

Taylor Mead

John Lurie

Crew

Eric Mitchell

Eric Mitchell

Walter Steding

Eric Mitchell

Tom DiCillo

Jim Jarmusch