Out of the Blue

★★★★★

“She's 15. The only adult she admires is Johnny Rotten.”

1980 · 1 h 34 min

Directed by Dennis Hopper

Drama

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Cast

Linda Manz Sharon Farrell Dennis Hopper

Credits

Written by: Leonard Yakir

Plot

A teenage punk girl waits for her father to come out of prison and lives with her junkie mother in a bleak Canadian town.

Sinekatalog’s take

Dennis Hopper's raw drama follows a punk teenage girl waiting for her father's release from prison. Linda Manz is extraordinary, and the film's bleak, angry energy makes a harrowing cult classic of broken families.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.2 / 10 (5,066 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

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