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"Out of the blue" is a very good movie with a very hard theme and meaning. But the actors and actresses are realy good. Linda Manz as CB is very good, and she is not only playing this role, sometimes you thinks, she is living this part. Dennis Hopper is a very good and impressive actor. For me, this one of his best movies!

"THERE IS NO JUSTICE, JUST ME"
(DEATH of the Discworld)

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I found a copy in the bargain bin at Zellers for $1.99 - it was cheaply packaged in a thin cardboard sleeve but it had excellent picture and sound quality and was in widescreen format. Good movie - powerful ending!!!

This film is amazing!

The ending is just beautiful! THIS FILM IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!

"Hello, I am Dennis Hopper."- Dennis Hopper

this movie is awesome; a lost classic. and linda manz in gummo = classic.

One of my all-time favourite movies!!

This really is worth discussing, so many scenes and so few responses to it? You could have a film class about this movie!



"Now, I know I'm pretty, but I ain't as pretty as a coupla titties!"

I watched a very poor quality torrent of Out of the Blue last night (since the film isn't readily available in my area) and was left pretty shaken. The film has a consistent, combustible punk attitude that always keeps you on your toes while never losing its heart for these challenging characterizations. Hopper's previous directorial efforts pale next to his work here (he replaced the other director), a film that I wish had more exposure.

Linda Manz (who debuted in Malick's Days of Heaven) has an intriguing presence that keeps you invested in her story of CB, a girl obsessed with Elvis, punk rock, and getting out from under a wildly dysfuntional family. When the perspective shifts over to her alcoholic father (played by Hopper) who is just released from a five year stint in prison, the movie lags slightly because he isn't as interesting as CB, but Hopper is such a talent that the complaint is merely minor. Hopper captures punk with razor sharp accuracy. His own antics throughout his own life must have made suitable to tell this story and understand that culture. You see it in the editing (radical, but more tasteful than Easy Rider), the profane-laced dialogue that always feels real, and most of all the unpredictability of the story that unfolds the way life often does. It's a challenging film, but rewarding to those willing to surrender to its grungy powers.

And there's the ending. That ending. Just when I thought the film had hit me in the gut enough times before, the movie has what is perhaps the single most disturbing, darkest conclusion I've ever seen. It's the reason it may have been banned, scorned, and dumped into obscurity, but it is viscerally horrifying, and give the move its namesake without being arbitrary. Out of the Blue is a shattering portrait of a family, a punk essay, and a great film all around.