
Two punks live in Salt Lake City. The film covers their all-day routine. The realism of the character-narrated movie may be discussed. One of the punks gets ill, stays in hospital for three weeks, comes out again. Three parties are covered and one concert including a fight between punks, rednecks and others.... (Full plot summary below)
Enjoy FREE movies and series with your Prime (USA) subscription or when you start a 30-day free trial!
Links compiled using automated software. Availability of offers subject to change / might be region specific / out of date.
Two punks live in Salt Lake City. The film covers their all-day routine. The realism of the character-narrated movie may be discussed. One of the punks gets ill, stays in hospital for three weeks, comes out again. Three parties are covered and one concert including a fight between punks, rednecks and others.
Leave your thoughts about SLC Punk.
| Chicago ReaderLisa AlspectorA hearty style of self-referential filmmaking that only adds to the persuasiveness of Lillards stunning performance. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert[Lillard's] performance dominates the film, and he does a subtle, tricky job of being both an obnoxious punk and a kid in search of his direction in life. He's very good. |
| Film Journal InternationalDavid LutySLC Punk cannot quite reach the richer depths it grasps for, because it doesn't have the material to support the large dramatic distance Stevo has to travel. |
| New York Daily NewsJami BernardFor a while, angry young Stevo (Lillard) turns his quest for total anarchy into a grungy, giddy, randomly violent rave. Then reality creeps up and, well, it bites. |
| L.A. WeeklyHazel-Dawn DumpertUltimately a wiser and truer film than its crass and cartoony beginnings would have us believe. |
| Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah)Audrey Rock-RichardsonA bitter, boring mess with no worthwhile message |
| TheFilmFile.comDustin PutmanAn assured first feature from Merendino, a filmmaker whom I look forward to his next film from. |
| Washington PostRita KempleyLillard, who played the squirrelly Stuart in "Scream," brings a mischievous sense of humor and an easygoing charm to his potentially unsympathetic character. |
| Village VoiceAmy TaubinMerendino's most innovative directorial strategy is to collapse present and past by having Lillard shout Stevo's reflections about his youthful rebellion directly at the camera, while the scene he's describing in the past tense takes place behind him. I know it sounds like a Brechtian affectation, but it works. |
| San Francisco ExaminerWesley MorrisIt's handsome filmmaking that doesn't surface until the final 25 minutes during which Stevo and company's sense of marginalization achieves the palpable, emotional import that's more expressive than anything its characters' have to bitch about. |