Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

Nowhere

NOT RATED
1997
1 HR, 23 min
JUL 16

Details

NOT RATED

Released 1997, United States

Drama, Sci-Fi, Romance

1 hour, 23 minutes

Strand Releasing

English

Starring

Nathan Bexton
James Duval
Rachel True
Debi Mazar
Christina Applegate

Director

Gregg Araki

4K RESTORATION

Gregg Araki’s Nowhere is a stylized foray into the nightmare world of adolescent highs and lows, but more than that, it functions as a study of an entire generation and the direction they’re headed. Where The Doom Generation seemed to be a wake-up call, Nowhere is more of a reflexive inquiry into the destiny of the seemingly apathetic youth who place more emphasis on style than substance. An ensemble piece with James Duval (star of all three of the films in the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy), Nowhere features a cast that mixes well-known faces—Ryan Philippe, Christina Applegate, Debi Mazar, Heather Graham, Guillermo Diaz, Denise Richards, Beverly D’Angelo, Shannen Doherty, and Tracy Lords—with up-and-comers.

Restored and remastered, Araki’s final version includes scenes omitted from the original release due to rating restrictions. Nowhere is a sexy and wild ride, so buckle up, remain seated, and enjoy the ultimate fast trip to oblivion.

$10 GENERAL ADMISSION | $5 MEMBERS & UNL STUDENTS

You can practically smell the pheromones wafting off this kaleidoscopic odyssey, which finds director Gregg Araki crossing soap-operatic elements with blasts of science fiction, indie-kid cool, and shiny pop-art subversion. On the day when the world is foretold to end, a group of terminally horny, disillusioned, zonked-out teens in Los Angeles see their lives explode in a glitter bomb of drugs, sex, death, and alien abduction. Bisexual lust, vaporizing Valley girls, sinister televangelists, nipple-ring S&M, murder by Campbell’s-soup can—Araki folds it all into an anarchic orgy that brings his Teen Apocalypse Trilogy to an explosively caustic close.
Criterion

Film Stills

Full Cast

Nathan Bexton Montgomery

James Duval Dark

Rachel True Mel

Debi Mazar Kozy

Christina Applegate Dingbat

Jordan Ladd Alyssa

Ryan Phillippe Shad

Heather Graham Lilith

Additional Credits

Gregg Araki Director

Reviews

“Sexy, psychedelic, dementedly funny… It’s like Clueless with nipple rings.”

Dennis Dermody

Paper

“Watching Nowhere feels like taking MDMA—the bright colors and strobing lights, the urgent press of bodies, the intense emotions. Araki serves angst, pure and true… Here’s hoping the fashion line leads to an Araki renaissance.”

Jasmyne Keimig

The Stranger

“Araki is very skillful at textual stealth attacks, allowing melancholy to emerge from rampaging static, and vice versa.”

Michael Atkinson

Spin