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SLC Punk!, 1998

Starring: Matthew Lillard, Michael Goorjian

Directed by: James Merendino

Written by: James Merendino

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 97 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:7.3

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The mood of SLC Punk! is offbeat, witty, and sentimental. The plot centers around rebelliousness, rebellion, and social misfits. It features dark humor and satire. SLC Punk! is a drama, comedy, and independent movie. Stylistically, it is nonlinear and includes a voice over. In approach, it is realistic. SLC Punk! is set in Utah. It happens in the 1980s. The musical score is punk, heavy metal, and rock. SLC Punk! is originally a true story. The movie is known for being an award winner. Note that it includes drugs/alcohol, sexual content, and profanity.

Summary of SLC Punk!

Stevo becomes a punk rebel in Reagan-era Salt Lake City. His 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.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	22 January 1999
Runtime:	97 min

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Matthew Lillard

as Stevo

Michael Goorjian

as Bob

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Michael Goorjian and Devon Sawa in SLC Punk! (1998)

Matthew Lillard as Stevo in SLC Punk! (1998)

Michael Goorjian and Annabeth Gish in SLC Punk! (1998)

Jennifer Lien and Matthew Lillard in SLC Punk! (1998)

Til Schweiger and Jason Segel in SLC Punk! (1998)

Matthew Lillard as Steveo in SLC Punk! (1998)

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Entertainment Weekly

For a while, angry young Stevo (Lillard) turns his quest for total anarchy into a grungy, giddy, randomly violent rave. Then reality creeps up and, well, it bites. Full Review

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by: Michael Sauter

San Francisco Chronicle

So forced and contrived in delivery that it's tedious. That's not good when the intention is to be audacious. Full Review

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by: Peter Stack

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as poised as a movie about punk rock is ever going to be

Captures with much needed humor what its like to live in a subculture, with all it paranoia about being a poser and about whether or not you fit its ideals or its ideals fit you, and how painful it is when that subculture disappoints you and you... Read and rate it

05.January.2011
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by: Rin
Rin rated this movie10/10Must See

It's rare to find a truly funny movie that successfully pulls off a social message dramatically. I really didn't expect this to be that funny, but it turned out to be pretty hilarious and had me laughing through the first hour. At that point the... Read and rate it

11.September.2010
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by: Nooshi N.
Nooshi N. rated this movie0/10

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