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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Not For Children, Adult Language, Substance Abuse, Sexual Situations Movie Release: 1999 DVD Release: 10/19/1999 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 37 mins Studio: Columbia TriStar Members Wishing: 13 Genres: Comedy Drama, Satire, Buddy Film, Coming-of-Age See Also: S.L.C. Punk! [Widescreen] [UMD for PSP]

What's it like being the only punk rockers in the biggest Mormon community in the world? Stevo (Matthew Lillard) and Heroin Bob (Michael Goorjian) provide the answer to this and other questions in SLC Punk. Stevo and Bob (whose name is actually an ironic reference to his fear of needles) are two friends fresh out of college who sport mohawks and blue hair, listen to hardcore and try to live up to their own anarchist ideals while figuring out what to do with their lives. Which wouldn't make them unusual in New York or Los Angeles, but they're fish out of water in Salt Lake City, Utah, where they drink beer, chase women and pick fights with "rednecks" along side a mixed bag of metalheads, hippies, hicks and posers who are fellow outcasts in the most clean-cut community in America. In the midst of all this, Stevo's dad hopes his son will follow in his footsteps and study law at Harvard; while Stevo surprisingly has the grades, he's not sure if he wants to go. Featuring a soundtrack of mid-80's punk from The Ramones, Minor Threat, The Dead Kennedys and others, SLC Punk was chosen as the opening-night feature at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Matthew Lillard - Stevo
Michael A. Goorjian - Bob
Annabeth Gish - Trish
Jennifer Lien - Sandy
Christopher McDonald - Father
Devon Sawa - Sean
Summer Phoenix - Brandy
Til Schweiger - Mark
Adam Pascal - Eddie

A surprisingly accurate and tender coming-of-age picture centered on a 1980s subculture, SLC Punk receives an excellent DVD release from Sony Pictures Classics. A real cult favorite that has found an audience on cable and video since its 1999 theatrical release, the disc features a pristine widescreen anamorphic transfer of SLC Punk and its better-than-average rock soundtrack on a separate audio track. This is a great option, even if you have to play the movie at the same time (the dialogue track gets muted out). Writer/director James Merendino drew on his own experiences growing up in Utah for SLC Punk (SLC stands for Salt Lake City) and he's joined by star Matthew Lillard in a very entertaining audio commentary track that offers insights into making the movie along with very funny insider anecdotes about the cast and crew. Merendino went on to adapt his own movie into a comic book and this edition of the DVD also provides a digital housing of the first issue of that stark, black-and-white comic, which is edgier and less humanistic than the film. ~ Nick Dedina, All Movie Guide