Underground U.S.A. (1980)
The end of a superstar.
85 min
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.
- Release date
- November 6, 1980
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Patti Astor as Vickie
- Rene Ricard as Kenneth
- Tom Wright as Frank
- Eric Mitchell as Victor
- Jackie Curtis as The room-mate
- Cookie Mueller as The barmaid
- Taylor Mead as The uncle
- Duncan Smith as The shrink
- John Lurie as Jack Smith
- Steve Mass as The accountant
Crew
- Eric Mitchell · Director
- Eric Mitchell · Writer
- Eric Mitchell · Producer
- Erdner Rauschalle · Producer
- Walter Steding · Composer
- Jim White · Composer
- Tom DiCillo · Cinematographer
- J.P. Roland-Levy · Editor