The Nickel Presents: OUT OF THE BLUE (18)

About The Nickel Presents: OUT OF THE BLUE (18)

Cebe (Linda Manz, Days of Heaven) is a teenage rebel obsessed with Elvis and the Sex Pistols. Her trucker father, Don (Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider) is in prison after drunkenly smashing his rig into a school bus, and her mother, Kathy (Sharon Farrell, It’s Alive) is a junkie waitress who takes refuge in the arms of other men, including Don’s best friend, Charlie (Don Gordon, Bullitt). With Don’s release, the family struggles to reconnect and the trauma of the past looms large as dark secrets slowly begin to emerge.

Despite only taking over directing duties eight days into the shoot Out of the Blue arguably represents Dennis Hopper’s strongest film as a director and features an astonishing performance by Manz.

Dennis Hopper considered this movie a follow-up to Easy Rider (1969) in that this is what would have "likely happened" to those characters. In that same sense, we might consider it an unofficial origin story for his iconic role as Frank in Blue Velvet (1986) which follows on the same bill.

The screening will be accompanied with programme notes and an introduction.