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50 out of 100

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8.8 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 25 Ratings

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  • Starring: Matthew Lillard, Michael A. Goorjian
  • Summary: To grow up in America is to, at one point or another, rebel against the world around you. If you're Stevo (Lillard) and you live in Reagan-era Salt Lake City, then, well...you just have to rebel a little bit harder. To this recent grad, the world is his enemy, anarchy his religion, and the Ramones, The Specials and the Dead Kennedys his muses. As he takes us on a guided tour of his life, we meet all sorts of punks, poseurs, mods, freaks and a few others best described as indescribable. Stevo's ex-hippie father sees his lifestyle as a rite of passage and urges him to attend Harvard Law School like himself. Not to sell out to the system, but to buy in. For Stevo, underneath the mohawk haircuts, earrings and leather, the idea, painfully, has some merit. The question becomes; how do you stay hard-core and still hope for a life beyond? [Sony Pictures Clasics]… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 21
  3. Negative: 4 out of 21
  1. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Lisa Alspector
    90
    A hearty style of self-referential filmmaking that only adds to the persuasiveness of Lillard’s stunning performance.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Amy Taubin
    60
    Merendino's most innovative directorial strategy is to collapse present and past by having Lillard shout Stevo's reflections about his youthful rebellion directly at the camera, while the scene he's describing in the past tense takes place behind him. I know it sounds like a Brechtian affectation, but it works.
  3. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Liam Lacey
    38
    Though Lillard's excitable tone keeps promising wild comic adventures, the sequences are uniformly flat and humour-free.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 18
  3. Negative: 1 out of 18
  1. LeviC.
    10
    This is one of the greatest movies of all time. It blends comedy with drama.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. HaileyH.
    9
    I love SLC punk its an amazing movie. i live in salt lake city and it was kinda cool to see a movie about living in it. for those of you who dont like this movie i pitty you.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. MattA.
    1
    I can't even imagine the type of people that are giving this film high ratings. Some critics have said that the redeeming factor of the movie is Lillard's perfomance. I couldn't disagree more. Lillard is just as annoying and over the top here as he is any of the movies in his pathetic catalogue. An altogether awful film, in the same territory as any Nora Ephron effort. Avoid unless you are a seriously depressed person who dyes your hair blue and worships punk music.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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