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The Living End (1992)

Director: Gregg Araki

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From Time Out Film Guide

Araki used to make fumbling anti-dramas about the flotsam of Los Angeles: depressed, ambivalent, uncommitted. This is really different. It's a queer 'couple-on-the-lam' movie, crammed with genre memories but closer to a bent Pierrot le Fou than to anything out of Hollywood. Two body-positive guys, a raunchy hustler and a passive movie critic, fall violently in love and flee a caricatured LA together after the hustler carelessly shoots a cop. Their aimless, fuck-the-world rampage through the void of Middle America has the same weight and impact as a good Act-Up slogan or a solid punk thrash. Groovy.

Author: TR 0000-00-00 00:00:00

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Cast & crew

Director: Gregg Araki

Producer: Marcus Hu, Jon Gerrans

Cast: Craig Gilmore, Mike Dytri, Darcy Marta, Mary Woronov, Johanna Went, Paul Bartel full cast

Duration: 84 mins


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