Underground U.S.A.

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1980 · 85 min · Drama · TMDB 4.8/10

Overview

The Sunset Blvd. of underground cinema, and a suitably ambivalent retrospect on the star-game casualties of New York's upper depths, with Patti Astor statuesquely hysterical as a 20-year-old Norma Desmond, made up to recall Edie Sedgwick and surrounded by Warhol's lost children. We've been here before, but without the hindsight: a camera cruise along a hustler's meat-rack, kitchen-talk over cold canned spaghetti, Taylor Mead grimacing in a spastic dance, the silent stud a sullenly passive observer. Mitchell's ear for campy native wit and eye for figures in a loft-scape happily keep at bay the otherwise contagious NY ennui.

Directed by Eric Mitchell

Cast

• Patti Astor — Vickie
• Rene Ricard — Kenneth
• Tom Wright — Frank
• Eric Mitchell — Victor
• Jackie Curtis — The Room-mate