DOOM GENERATION, THE - Director's Cut
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Headed home after a wild night at a Los Angeles club, young lovers Jordan White (James Duval) and Amy Blue (Rose McGowan) pick up a dangerously handsome drifter named Xavier Red (Johnathon Schaech). Jordan doesn't see a problem with offering Xavier a quick ride, but his acid-tongued girlfriend thinks he's a creep. When Xavier inadvertently kills a convenience store clerk, they are forced to go on the run, traversing a bizarre and ultra-violent America. Somehow, every random thug, drive-through operator and neo-Nazi they encounter seems to recognize Amy as a past fling or alter ego, adding to the already explosive sexual tension brimming among the renegade trio. Certainly not for the faint of heart, director Gregg Araki's unhinged fifth feature premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1995 and has not been seen in its original form ever since. The middle entry in the writer/director's "Teenage Apocalypse" trilogy (in between 1993's TOTALLY F***ED UP and 1997's NOWHERE), THE DOOM GENERATION marked Araki's entry into mainstream discourse and cemented his reputation for radical and stylish storytelling. (Note adapted from Sundance Film Festival.) DIR/SCR/PROD Gregg Araki; PROD Andrea Sperling. U.S., 1995, color, 83 min. RATED R
AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 83 Minutes
Opening Date: Saturday, May 20, 2023
Genre: Crime comedy
