Directed by Dennis Hopper • 1980 • United States
Starring Linda Manz, Dennis Hopper, Sharon Farrell

Dennis Hopper’s hurricane-force domestic tragedy is the ’80s answer to EASY RIDER, following troubled youth subculture to its frightening, screaming, self-annihilating extreme. Just out of prison for drunk-driving his truck into a school bus, delinquent dad Don (Dennis Hopper) returns home to the planet’s most messed up family: heroin-addict wife Kathy (Sharon Farrell) and self-destructive, Elvis Presley– and Sid Vicious–obsessed rebel-punk daughter Cebe (Linda Manz), whose mantra is “disco sucks, kill all hippies.” Driven by the teenage Manz’s stunningly raw performance, OUT OF THE BLUE shocked audiences upon its premiere and in the ensuing decades has lost none of its furiously nihilistic power.