As her L.A.-set 'punk rock bible' 'Suburbia' turns 40, the filmmaker looks back on casting Flea, 'selling out' after 'Wayne's World' and more.
Spheeris’ first feature “probably the best teenagers-in-revolt movie since Jonathan Kaplan’s ‘Over the Edge,’” comparing it favorably to “The Outsiders” and “Rumble Fish,” and its wild, raw portrayal of teen angst still resonates 40 years on.
“Suburbia” feels like such an L.A. movie, because you captured the feel of the streets and the loneliness that can happen in such a sprawling place so well. You’ve lived in Los Angeles a long time, so do you ever pass by locations from that shoot and get nostalgic? I had been in one of his movies, and my sister worked with him. He was always a straight-ahead businessman. Bert Dragin [one of the film’s producers] owned a furniture chain in the Midwest, and he made a bunch of money and decided to move to California and make movies. He wanted to put $250,000 into the movie after he read my script, and he asked me to get the other half. So I approached Roger. When you had money in pocket, Roger would talk to you.
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