Totally F***ed Up (1993)

Directed by

Gregg Araki

Genre

drama film, teen film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 18m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 125 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film follows six gay teenagers who live together as a makeshift family. They deal with personal struggles and clash with each other as they face tough situations.

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What happens

Totally F***ed Up (also known as Totally Fucked Up) is a 1993 American avant-garde drama film written and directed by Gregg Araki. As the first installment of Araki's Teenage Apocalypse film trilogy, it is considered a seminal entry in the New Queer Cinema genre. The film chronicles the dysfunctional lives of six gay adolescents who have formed a family unit. Over the course of the movie, they struggle to get along with each other and with life in the face of various major obstacles. As classified by Araki, it is "a rag-tag story of the fag-and-dyke teen underground....a kinda cross between avant-garde experimental cinema and a queer John Hughes flick." Because of the film's 15-part structure and use of documentary-like interviews, it has earned comparison to Godard's Masculin Féminin (1966), which Araki has cited as significant inspiration. Totally F***ed Up first premiered at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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