Nowhere

“Sexy, psychedelic, dementedly funny… it’s like Clueless with nipple rings” – Dennis Dermody, Paper

Gregg Araki’s surreal 1997 teen comedy Nowhere charts a day in the hilarious and tragic life of Dark Smith (James Duval, Donnie Darko), an alienated 18-year-old obsessed with the End of the World and finding his one true and lasting love. The object of his affection, Mel (Rachel True, The Craft), feels for him deeply but can’t commit herself to any one person or gender, splitting her time between Dark and her curvaceous, acid-tongued girlfriend, Lucifer (Kathleen Robertson, Psycho Beach Party). Dark, meanwhile, becomes enthralled by the beauteous Montgomery (Nathan Bexton, Go), literally a vision to behold beneath the golden California sun.  The final chapter of Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy (following 1993’s Totally F***ed Up and 1995’s The Doom Generation), Nowhere is a wild, sexy, highly-stylized trip into the nightmare of adolescence featuring a late-‘90s dream cast including Guillermo Diaz, Alan Boyce, Jeremy Jordan, Chiara Mastroianni, Debi Mazar, Christina Applegate, Scott Cain, Heather Graham, Ryan Phillippe, Traci Lords, Shannen Doherty, Rose McGowan, Jaason Simmons and Jordan Ladd to name a few. (Dir. by Gregg Araki, 1997, USA, 83 mins., Not Rated)