Fans of obscure punk-themed 80s movies should find something appealing with this rather unusual, but nonetheless funky, little adventure.
The story primarily concerns the self-discovery of main character, Joey, a recent college graduate who has his future mapped out for him by his over-bearing father and well-meaning, but naive mother. That is, clerking for his father's money grubbing law firm, getting prepped at Yale law in the fall, and then being next in line to take over the family firm. Only, things change when Joey and his yuppie friends from Shaker Hieghts travel into "the darkside" (aka. the rundown part of town) to attend a punk show. There, Joey meets a drummer named Thunder and I guess, falls in love and is inspired to try a more adventurous life.
He suddenly leaves home after trying to explain to his father that maybe he'd rather do something with his summer other than clerking at the law firm, and in a search for his beloved drummer girl, befriends a cool singer for a punk rock band (played by real punker, Pleasant Gehman, who co-writes the film) who is searching for a new drummer. Soon enough, Joey is living in L.A. with the band and enduring one night of excitement and oddity after another as becomes more and more imbibed in the punk culture.
Although, despite all the great music and mildly hilarious events surrounding our characters, the movie tends to drag pace about the point that Joey decides that fun time is over and that he needs to go home and get serious, probably because it is at this point that we see less of the goofy punk girls (although I wouldn't call their music punk) who showed him many good times before and got the poor bloke to loosen up.
Nonetheless, it offers good times and some good laughs for the most part. Fans of the new-wave or punk inspired movies of the early 80s should like this one. Despite being released one year shy of 1990, it possesses a lot of the low-budget flavor of its predecessors.
The story primarily concerns the self-discovery of main character, Joey, a recent college graduate who has his future mapped out for him by his over-bearing father and well-meaning, but naive mother. That is, clerking for his father's money grubbing law firm, getting prepped at Yale law in the fall, and then being next in line to take over the family firm. Only, things change when Joey and his yuppie friends from Shaker Hieghts travel into "the darkside" (aka. the rundown part of town) to attend a punk show. There, Joey meets a drummer named Thunder and I guess, falls in love and is inspired to try a more adventurous life.
He suddenly leaves home after trying to explain to his father that maybe he'd rather do something with his summer other than clerking at the law firm, and in a search for his beloved drummer girl, befriends a cool singer for a punk rock band (played by real punker, Pleasant Gehman, who co-writes the film) who is searching for a new drummer. Soon enough, Joey is living in L.A. with the band and enduring one night of excitement and oddity after another as becomes more and more imbibed in the punk culture.
Although, despite all the great music and mildly hilarious events surrounding our characters, the movie tends to drag pace about the point that Joey decides that fun time is over and that he needs to go home and get serious, probably because it is at this point that we see less of the goofy punk girls (although I wouldn't call their music punk) who showed him many good times before and got the poor bloke to loosen up.
Nonetheless, it offers good times and some good laughs for the most part. Fans of the new-wave or punk inspired movies of the early 80s should like this one. Despite being released one year shy of 1990, it possesses a lot of the low-budget flavor of its predecessors.
