Underground U.S.A.

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

November 6, 1980

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English

Production

New Line Cinema

Cast

John Lurie,Tom Wright,Patti Astor,Eric Mitchell,Cookie Mueller,Jackie Curtis,Rene Ricard,Taylor Mead

Director

Eric Mitchell

Writer

Eric Mitchell

Producer

Eric Mitchell

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0081682