Escaping from a broken home and an alcoholic father teenager Evan and his younger brother fall in with a group of wild punks who call themselves 'The Rejected'. They live in a tumbletown shack by the side of a highway in Los Angeles - a filthy squat they are happy to share with anyone including a pack of lost dogs. The Rejected give the two boys a structure for coping with their lives and somehow manage to teach them lessons about living in harmony. But the peace is soon shattered when local vigilantes decide the punks should be forced out of the neighbourhood.
Poorly acted and slow-paced, but also a very accurate depiction of the early 80s Los Angeles punk rock/hardcore scene. One to avoid for the majority, but if you have an interest in the subject matter then a very watchable movie and time capsule of the period when being a punk rocker was a real middle-finger response to a world that was going insane to many people. This movies attempts to address many of the social problems prevalent of the times, but never explores with any great depth. Broken families, runaway teenagers, incest, drug abuse... it's not an uplifting viewing. But the entire movie is redeemed by the quality live footage of seminal L.A. punk bands of the era, D.I., T.S.O.L. and The VANDALS. If you have an interest in those bands and the era they represent, well this movie is a priceless insight into the world of 1982 L.A. punk rock.
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