Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 04/16/1999(USA)
Release Date: 10/12/1999
SubTitles: English/Espanol/French
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 97 Minutes
Flags: Not For Children, Adult Language, Substance Abuse (Alcohol, Drugs), Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
What's it like being the only punk rockers in the biggest Mormon community in the world? Stevo (
Matthew Lillard) and Heroin Bob (
Michael Goorjian) provide the answer to this and other questions in
SLC Punk. Stevo and Bob (whose name is actually an ironic reference to his fear of needles) are two friends fresh out of college who sport mohawks and blue hair, listen to hardcore and try to live up to their own anarchist ideals while figuring out what to do with their lives. Which wouldn't make them unusual in New York or Los Angeles, but they're fish out of water in Salt Lake City, Utah, where they drink beer, chase women and pick fights with "rednecks" along side a mixed bag of metalheads, hippies, hicks and posers who are fellow outcasts in the most clean-cut community in America. In the midst of all this, Stevo's dad hopes his son will follow in his footsteps and study law at Harvard; while Stevo surprisingly has the grades, he's not sure if he wants to go. Featuring a soundtrack of mid-80's punk from
The Ramones,
Minor Threat,
The Dead Kennedys and others,
SLC Punk was chosen as the opening-night feature at the 1999
Sundance Film Festival.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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