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6.7/10
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A talent-challenged girl tries to promote herself to stardom in New York's waning punk music world.A talent-challenged girl tries to promote herself to stardom in New York's waning punk music world.A talent-challenged girl tries to promote herself to stardom in New York's waning punk music world.
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- 1 nomination total
Joni Ruth White
- Landlady
- (as Robynne White)
Ada McSpade
- Rasta
- (as Ade McSpade)
Ed French
- Horror Movie Sequence
- (as Edward E. French)
Alan Woolf
- Pimp
- (as Wolf Alan)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDirector Susan Seidelman told her actress Susan Berman to see the Federico Fellini film Les nuits de Cabiria (1957) before beginning to research her role.
- GoofsIn end of film when the girl gets ejected from the club by bouncers the boom mic is visible.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Desperately Seeking Susan & Richard (2004)
- SoundtracksThe Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness
Written by Bill Million (uncredited) and Glenn Mercer (uncredited)
Performed by The Feelies
From the album "Crazy Rhythms" (1980)
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I watched this film probably about 2 years ago at some very early hour of the morning. The Smithereens was one of those films which was strangely compelling in an empty sort of way, there is this incredibly overpowering early 80's economically, socially and artistically bleak skew on everything. This feeling alone makes the film worth watching, and the completely disconnected and irrelevant life of the main character evokes strange emotions of sympathy and intense loneliness. I can't tell you much about the story-line other than it is following the life of a young woman who is a bit of a miscreant and is getting nowhere incredibly fast. Desolation, vacuity and depression at its best!
- machinabullet
- Aug 27, 2002
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- New York City Girl
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- $105,000 (estimated)
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