Underground U.S.A.

Underground U.S.A.

🎞️ Movie 85 min US
โ˜… 5.1 /10 1980

The end of a superstar.

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.

Direction
Screenplay

Cast

Patti Astor
Patti Astor
Vickie
Rene Ricard
Rene Ricard
Kenneth
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Tom Wright
Frank
Eric Mitchell
Eric Mitchell
Victor
Jackie Curtis
Jackie Curtis
The room-mate
Cookie Mueller
Cookie Mueller
The barmaid
Taylor Mead
Taylor Mead
The uncle
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Duncan Smith
The shrink
John Lurie
John Lurie
Jack Smith
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Steve Mass
The accountant
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Walter Steding
Composer
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Jim White
Composer
Tom DiCillo
Tom DiCillo
Cinematographer