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- 1997
- R
- Fine Line Features
- 1 h 22 m
- 1997
- R
- Fine Line Features
- 1 h 22 m
Summary Follows a day in the lives of a group of Los Angeles high school students and the strange lives they lead.
Directed By: Gregg Araki
Written By: Gregg Araki
- 1997
- R
- Fine Line Features
- 1 h 22 m
- 1997
- R
- Fine Line Features
- 1 h 22 m
Nowhere
44
6.6
Where to Watch
Summary Follows a day in the lives of a group of Los Angeles high school students and the strange lives they lead.
Directed By: Gregg Araki
Written By: Gregg Araki
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
44
25% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
44% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
31% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
44
25% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
44% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
31% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Rape scene aside, Nowhere is stunningly beautiful to watch. There’s not one frame that hasn’t been intricately stylised. Araki brings his trilogy to a head in a bundle of celluloid confusion that encapsulates nihilistic teenage mentality and delivers an expressionistic banquet for your eyes to devour (and your brain to decipher). It’s a wild, enjoyable teenage riot.
The third and final chapter in Araki's teen-angst-run-riot-in-L.A. triptych is as gorgeously messy as the first two opening salvos (Totally F***ed Up and The Doom Generation), but this time Araki employs a far broader and more complex character canvas than previously.
The truth is you can find more entertaining absurdities and thrilling nihilism from watching the average episode of Melrose Place or Beverly Hills, 90210 and, at least on those shows, they don't confuse dumb with doomed. [13 June 1997, p.C6]
If it weren't so overpopulated and desperate to shock, Nowhere might have succeeded as a maliciously cheery satire of Hollywood brats overdosing on the very concept of Hollywood. But the movie is so hectically paced that it doesn't have time to develop its characters or to flesh out the tales it sets in motion. Even comic books are better at telling stories.
Teen nihilism of the cheapest kind, it's as pretentious as Jean-Luc Godard, as tacky as one of those Z grade turkeys by Ted V Miklas, and at least twice as boring as that sounds.
The young people in Nowhere spend a lot of time worrying about the world coming to an end. Watching these sour characters abuse themselves and one another, the more immediate concern becomes: When is this movie going to end?
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 User Ratings
6.6
60% Positive
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3 Ratings
20% Mixed
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20% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 User Ratings
6.6
60% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
20% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
20% Negative
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Production Company
Blurco,
Desperate Pictures,
Union Générale Cinématographique (UGC),
Why Not Productions
Release Date May 9, 1997
Duration 1 h 22 m
Rating R
Tagline "sexy, psychedelic, dementedly funny, with a sensational soundtrack... it's like clueless with nipple rings."
Awards
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 1 Nomination
