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| Times Square
Year: 1980
Classification: Action/Adventure
Directed:
- Allan Moyle
A Quarter of a Century Later
I first saw this movie when it was released theatrically back in 1980 and I loved it then. Of course, I was just a teenage kid myself then, and just getting into the punk scene. I went back to the theatre and saw it two more times before it disappeared. I haven't seen the movie at all in the past 24 years, but it left such an impression on me that I have been looking for it to come out on DVD. Now that it's available, I plan to buy it and hope it lives up to my memory of it. Even if it doesn't, the music in the movie is worth the cost of the DVD if the complete soundtrack is available on the disc.
At the very least, the movie is a historical document of what a filmmaker in 1980 thought the late 70s punk scene was about even if he did have to tame down the sexual content that would have made the movie more authentic.
What a really depressing movie
This movie sent me into a blue funk for two weeks. Why? The movie was too true to life in most respects. The one big flaw, the thirteen year old runaway who gets a job in a strip joint, but won't go topless (Hollywood couldn't get away with that). In real life the thirteen year old could have gotten the job but would've done more than strip (see Traci Lords). The two runaways live a really depressing life. If you are mentally strong, watch the movie. If the news upsets or depresses you, skip this movie altogether.
One of the 10 greatest films of all time
wonderful music, wonderful realistic story.<BR>a guide for how to live!<BR>FREEDOM!<BR>watch it every day.<BR>why is there not a soundtrack CD
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