Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790732107 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC ISBN: 0790732106 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: January 13, 1998 Running Time: 116 minutes Sales Rank: 14462 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: February 07, 1997
Amazon.com: Austin-based filmmaker Richard Linklater (Slacker, Dazed and Confused) has a knack for discovering young actors and getting the best out of them. For example, Dazed and Confused launched the careers of Matthew McConaughey (A Time to Kill), Parker Posey (Waiting for Guffman), Adam Goldberg (Saving Private Ryan), and Anthony Rapp (star in the original cast of the Broadway musical sensation, Rent). SubUrbia, based on the play by monologist Eric Bogosian, is the first Linklater-directed film that he didn't also write, and although the result feels more in-your-face Bogosian than laid-back Linklater, his way with actors is still very much in evidence.
SubUrbia centers on a group of bored, aimless, post-high-school kids who spend an inordinate amount of time hanging out in the parking lot of a local convenience store. It all takes place over a single night, when a fellow classmate by the name of Pony (Jayce Bartok), who has become a hot pop star since graduation, returns with his limo and his publicist (Posey) to do a little slumming in his hometown. Giovanni Ribisi (Saving Private Ryan) as the introspective Jeff, Ajay Naidu as the proprietor of the Circle A (for 'anarchy'), and Steve Zahn (Out of Sight) as the buffoonish Buff, are also very impressive in a movie that's a real showcase for its terrific actors. --Jim Emerson
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Rating: - Crappy
Pointless movie and already dated even though it was released less than 8 years ago. The acting is poor and the movie just drags on endlessly without any humor or worthwhile drama. Don't waste your time with this.
Rating: - Good enough to get a 5
This takes me back to sitting on my cot in Bosnia, where I orginally watched this movie on tape.......if only it was on DVD.....since I am replacing all the outdated tapes with DVDs....I rememeber this movie was one of the first places I saw Steve Zahn....I still laugh when I think of watching him steal the garden gnome with crazy, wide-eyed zeal....if it never gets on DVD it'd be a travesty.
Rating: - Yes, But
People say, why isn't SONG OF THE SOUTH on DVD, well, I say, why isn't Richard Linklater's SubURBIA on DVD? His brilliant study of disaffected twenty year olds longing for success in the parking lot of a 7-11 knockoff made his previous films SLACKER and DAZED AND CONFUSED look like variety show skits, and yet so many of us have never gotten a chance to see this movie. They say that Disney is wary of releasing SONG OF THE SOUTH because of its patronizing use of black actors to embody racial stereotypes (happy slaves, etc). Same is true with SUBURBIA which has some nasty racial stereotypes at the Chinese restaurant to which some of the characters repair while hungry.
Rating: - It's A Late Night
I can never ever catch Suburbia at a decent time, every time I see it it's when I'm pulling an all nighter on some work and HBO just feels like putting it on at 1am. Maybe Suburbia is not as good of a movie I think it is but my insomnia makes it 20 times funnier than it is. This movie shows some of the problems suburban kids go through like having to deal with a guy from high school that went on to do better than you coming back. Then he makes your life seem as small as the 7-11 you stand in front of most of the day. Plus going around for an entire night thinking you killed a girl only to find out that she just passed out. Suburbia makes lives little problems a joke even if they didn't intend for the movie to be funny it is.
It's basically about a bunch of kids in there late teens walking around doing and saying the craziest and dumbest things and all because they have nowhere to go and nothing to do. ... Read More
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