316 — Suburbia (1983)

We continue our Penelope Spheeris series with her first narrative feature, Suburbia.

Plot summary:

Suburbia is director Penelope Spheeris's study of the Los Angeles punk rock scene in the early 1980s. Evan and his younger brother leave their broken home in an attempt to escape their alcoholic mother. They find family in a group of punks who live as squatters in an abandoned house by the side of the highway.