Underground U.S.A.

The end of a superstar.

Underground U.S.A. — Plot

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
• Runtime
• 85 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Eric Mitchell

Underground U.S.A. — Cast

Patti Astor Vickie Rene Ricard Kenneth Tom Wright Frank Eric Mitchell Victor Jackie Curtis The Room-mate Cookie Mueller The Barmaid Taylor Mead The Uncle John Lurie Jack Smith