Movie Details
| Title: | The Runnin' Kind | |
| Director: | Max Tash | |
| Year: | 1989 | |
| Genre: | Comedy | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 04.20.24 |
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| 04.20.24 | Internet | This late 80s comedy is about a boring kid who goes to LA and gets wrapped up into the world of punk rock. I watched it because it's mentioned in the book I'm reading as being shot in an infamous punk apartment called Disgraceland and has footage of bands like tsol and the screaming sirens as well as starring and co-written by Pleasant Gehman. As it happens so often in these cases, the movie is not good but I guess worth tracking down if you're weird like me and want to see the interiors of some of these 80s LA punk clubs and settings. This is like a prime example of why Zack Carlson and Bryan Connolly wrote Destroy All Movies!!!. I think the same happened in the new york scene but I feel like part of what made LA's punk scene more visible is that there were filmmakers there. On top of docs like Decline, Spheeris also made Suburbia and Dudes. Lee Ving was in a handful of movies, John Doe was in a handful of movies, stuff like this somehow got made. And thanks to youtube, it's available to watch (albeit in artifact-y 480p form but still). And I did think there was one good scene. In the third act, after the main character returns home with his punk rock hairdo wearing a cowboy hat and talks to his mom, she tells him that his dad is in his study and will be happy to see him. Cut to the study where the dad silently looks at him (the story is framed around dad having a lawfirm that he expects his son to inherit but the son blows off a summer internship to go to LA after going to a local punk club). After a moment, the dad says "take that hat off." The son does. The dad sees the haircut, very still, no reaction. He then says "hat back on." That wasn't bad! The rest of it... eh, let's not dwell on it. |
