Smithereens (1982)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Susan Seidelman

Writers:

Peter Askin (writer)
Ron Nyswaner (screenplay)

Release Date:

19 August 1983 (West Germany)

Genre:

Drama | Music

Tagline:

Who is this?

Plot:

An restless and abrasive young woman eschews the affections of a sensitive young portrait artist, preferring...

Plot Keywords:

New York | Subway | TV | Bathroom | New York City

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Susan Berman	...	Wren
Brad Rijn	...	Paul (as Brad Rinn)
Richard Hell	...	Eric
Nada Despotovich	...	Cecile
Roger Jett	...	Billy
Kitty Summerall	...	Eric's wife
Joni Ruth White	...	Landlady (as Robynne White)
D.J. O'Neill	...	Ed
Pamela Speed	...	Terry
Tom Cherwin	...	Mike
Edie Schecter	...	Christine
Katherine Riley	...	1st Hooker
Amos Poe	...	Hustler in Bar
Ada McSpade	...	Rasta (as Ade McSpade)
Cookie Mueller	...	Horror Movie Sequence

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Spain:18 | USA:R | Norway:16

Filming Locations:

East Village, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Domestic Productions

Trivia:

Susan Seidelman's crew consisted of friends and people with whom she had worked at New York University film school when she was a student there.

Goofs:

Boom mic visible: In end of film when the girl gets ejected from the club by bouncers the boom mic is visible.

Movie Connections:

Features Bedtime for Bonzo (1951)

Soundtrack:

Loveless Love

Intriguing at an early hour.

I watched this film probably about 2 years ago at some very early hour of the morning. The Smithereens was one of those films which was strangely compelling in an empty sort of way, there is this incredibly overpowering early 80's economically, socially and artistically bleak skew on everything. This feeling alone makes the film worth watching, and the completely disconnected and irrelevant life of the main character evokes strange emotions of sympathy and intense loneliness. I can't tell you much about the story-line other than it is following the life of a young woman who is a bit of a miscreant and is getting nowhere incredibly fast. Desolation, vacuity and depression at its best!