Synopsis
She's 15. The only adult she admires is Johnny Rotten.
A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.
Out of the Blue
Cast
Linda Manz Dennis Hopper Sharon Farrell Don Gordon Raymond Burr Leon Ericksen Fiona Brody David L. Crowley Joan Hoffman Carl Nelson Francis Ann Pettit Glen Pfeifer David Ackridge Jim Byrnes Glen Fyfe Louis Gentile Murdine Hirsch John Anderson Howard Taylor Ron Chartier Ray Wallis Trevor Wilkins Nancy Gould Michele Little Valentina Fierro Ray Isabelle Sid Albina De Silva Wayne McLeod Eve Humber Show All…
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Alternative Titles
Dynamite Punk, Explodierende Träume, Rebelde sin destino, No Looking Back, Sin nada que perder, Fuera de control, Garçonne, Snack Bar Blues, משום מקום, Caído del cielo, 走出忧郁, Οι Ξεγραμμένοι, 아웃 오브 블루, Blesk z čistého nebe
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Premiere
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France
Cannes Film Festival
07 May 1982
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USAR
USA Film Festival
27 Aug 1982
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Canada
World Film Festival, Montreal
07 Nov 2019
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Greece
Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Theatrical
29 Apr 1981
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Spain18
28 Aug 1981
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Germany16
28 Jan 1982
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Netherlands
03 Dec 1983
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Canada
Physical
22 Oct 2022
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USAR
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Canada
27 Aug 1982
- Premiere World Film Festival, Montreal
03 Dec 1983
- Theatrical
France
20 May 1980
- Premiere Cannes Film Festival
Germany
28 Aug 1981
- Theatrical16
Greece
07 Nov 2019
- Premiere Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Netherlands
28 Jan 1982
- Theatrical
Spain
29 Apr 1981
- Theatrical18 Madrid
USA
07 May 1982
- PremiereR USA Film Festival
22 Oct 2022
- PhysicalR Severin Digital Restoration
Popular reviews
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"She forgets how young she is,
and she wants to grow up so fast."Genuinely and exceptionally heartbreaking, my god, and Linda Manz gives -- probably one of the greatest teenage performances of all-time here. No hyperbole intended; not gonna shake this one for a while. If you loved her in Days of Heaven then this is an essential disparity, and -- no, just an essential film in general. A rather cynical but honest, musically-driven time capsule as well as a tremendously emotional narrative. Best to go in knowing very little.
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“Where’d you get those scars?”
“Dad.”A “meaningless” punk gesture of pain so unbearable it can destructively drive through a memory like a big rig at any moment. The only way out is pure annihilation.
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"Motherfuckers! Come in and get me, I'm ready for you! I hate fucking men!"
I love this movie.
Linda Manz is remarkable in this. An angry girl with a dysfunctional family trying to cope with the circumstances of her life through a tough attitude and a love of music. When it premiered at Cannes 40 years ago she was considered a sensation and many believed she would be a front-runner for best actress. (RIP Linda 8/14/20)
Hopper effortlessly steps into the role of the perverted and toxic ex-con father. Some truly uncomfortable scenes, but with some solid payoffs. Reportedly he made a lot of changes to the script and is an uncredited writer, and I could easily see that.
The…
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I definitely don’t think that being ruinously addicted to drugs helps anyone’s creativity, but then I look at this movie by Dennis Hopper and I have to admit it gives me pause.
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Hopper took over direction of this film after he signed on as an actor, yet the final product feels as if he'd planned it from the start. Where EASY RIDER suggested that the world was against the new generation and would even kill to maintain order, OUT OF THE BLUE sets its sights on the failure of those dreamers themselves, extrapolating the admitted spiritual failure of Billy and co.'s journey to where now they are the ones causing misery for the next group of young and restless. The open road is traded for a rusting-over small town, the expanse of America's natural beauty for a soiled landfill, and the psychedelic hope of counterculture music for a stripped-down aggressiveness that looks…
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“Out of the Blue” concocts an alternate ending for “Easy Rider” that is - somehow - even bleaker than the original version.
Directed by Dennis Hopper with the concept of being a decade-past sequel to his generation-defining road flick, “Blue” doesn’t just pull an “Easy” and kill its idols.
It kills itself, and everyone it ever loved.
The fearless Linda Manz stars in “Blue” as the daughter of an ex con, ex hippie, and - for all intents and purposes - ex father, played by Hopper himself.
“Blue” is awash with the after effects of failed cultural revolution. Hopper, and his fellow one-time rebels of the beatnik age, still worship the youthful intransigence of their movement’s founding. In refusing to…
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Seeing a coming-of-age film directed by Dennis Hopper should give viewers a good idea of what to anticipate from an actor who established his career by being a bit of an oddball and not being afraid to push boundaries. And that's exactly what this picture achieves, almost right off the bat, with a seemingly lovely exchange between two characters that's shattered by the shocking death of a group of people, including kids. With this, t The filmmaker sets the tone for the film, signaling that it will not delve deeply into the difficulties that a teenager growing up in a dysfunctional family may experience. Drugs, violence, and.... other things.
Linda Manz does a great job in the lead role as…
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Out of the blue and into the black 🎶
Dennis Hopper’s denim-soaked dark coming-of-age masterpiece recently restored by Severin is one of their best releases to date, the restoration is godly, the slipcover is double-sided and gorgeous, the special features are plenty. I am so happy to own this gem of a film.
Linda Manz Linda Manz Linda Manz, I am blown away at this film entirely, but her performance is so raw and devastating— she was beyond excellent, a young girl trying to overcome the trauma from being the daughter of an ex-con and drug addicted mother but finds solace in music, mainly The King, Elvis—to forget about the pain. She walks proud and boldly wearing a embroidered denim jean jacket…
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It does...subvert normality... something Cebe (Linda Manz) keeps shouting throughout the movie. Abuse never looks one specific way; on screen, it is as mesmerizing as it is harrowing to ride along with the chaos, to observe the generational dysfunction. This film captures it so successfully that it is uncomfortable to watch.
It's also fascinating to watch the fabric of a specific subculture weave itself into the story. Manz makes this movie and has somehow inherited the unhinged genes from Hopper. She'll manspread and cuss out a bouncer and adopt Elvis's swagger and order a rum and coke and smoke a joint, but all of it is made so much more disturbing when, at the end of the night, she goes to bed sucking her thumb like a baby.
Obviously, there's no pretty way out of this mess. Cebe herself says it: "I hate happy endings."
Anyhow, it's a punk gesture; there's nothing behind it.
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manages to simultaneously capture the ennui of the 70s counter-culture (and the iconic status of Hopper as a figure that shaped and existed within it) as well as the budding punk movement going into the 80s, but more than that, it's just utterly hopeless and those final few minutes suck all of the air out of any room it plays in; new restoration is gorgeous
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linda manz is right up there with river phoenix for me. they both seem to only have the ability to project something that’s open & truthful on screen, no matter what that is. everything about linda’s performance is so natural, which makes it even more heartbreaking.
thinking of the two of them today, in their denim jackets,
looking for a ride towards something new 💙
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