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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: November 16, 2004
- Originally Released: 1982
- Label: Blue Underground
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Susan Berman, Brad Rijn & Richard Hell | |
| Performer: | Roger Jett & Nada Despotovich | |
| Directed by | Susan Seidelman | |
| Screenplay by | Peter Askin & Ron Nyswaner | |
| Story by | Susan Seidelman & Ron Nyswaner | |
| Produced by | Susan Seidelman |
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Rating: 3.5/5 --
Despite being a downer of a story, Smithereens casts a beguiling spell as an everlasting record of the shifting punk scene in America.
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The Lonely Film Critic
Rating: B --
Susan Seidelman's feature debut, the first American indie to be shown at the Cannes Film Festival, put New York's East Village sensibility onscreen by examining issues of identity, desire and self-fulfillment from a distinctly female perspective.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Smithereens is an unflinching look at a moment in time that is now looked at with rose-colored glasses.
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FanboyNation.com
Rating: B --
Serves as a time capsule for NYC's punk rock scene in the '80s.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Susan Seidelman is perhaps most readily known for her 1985 Madonna vehicle Desperately Seeking Susan, but it is in Smithereens that its more famous successor took its low-budget, rawly independent first steps.
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The Blue Lenses
Rating: 4/5 --
Wren's shallow cynicism and willingness to exploit others ultimately exposes her own vulnerability. Deeply unlikable, she remains sympathetic, both perpetrator and victim of the meat grinder that is the city.
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CineVue
It's as unsparing a sketch of twentysomething life in New York City as American independent cinema has yet offered.
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Slant Magazine
Description by OLDIES.com:
Filmmaker Susan Seidelman rocked the movie industry with this daring and quirky story of Wren (Susan Berman), a self-promoting Jersey girl desperate to break into the downtown Manhattan music scene. But with no money and no talent, she bounces between a nice guy artist (Brad Rinn) who lives in his van and an arrogant musician (Punk icon Richard Hell) who lives off of anyone who will let him. SMITHEREENS - which also marked the debut of Oscar-nominated screenwriter Ron Nyswaner (PHILADELPHIA) and features a score by beloved cult band The Feelies - remains a remarkable time capsule of the early 80s East Village scene and made history as the first American independent film invited to compete for the Golden Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival.
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