O.C. and Stiggs are not your average unhappy teenagers. They not only despise their suburban surroundings, they plot against it. They seek revenge against the middle class Schwab family, who embody all they detest: middle class.
This film was a critical and commercial flop in its day, and has gone on to be considered one of the worst films in Robert Altman's long career. No film is singled out more than this as being the low end of his talents. (If his lowest film is still above a 5 on IMDb, though, he is doing better than many.)
Perhaps a revisit is in order. Not that the film is a lost classic, but in some ways it might be ahead of its time. While it failed as a 1980s teen comedy, it has some aspects of 1990s teen comedy in it. Particularly such "subversive" films as "Suburbia" or "SLC Punk". Stiggs might have blended in well with those groups...
This film was a critical and commercial flop in its day, and has gone on to be considered one of the worst films in Robert Altman's long career. No film is singled out more than this as being the low end of his talents. (If his lowest film is still above a 5 on IMDb, though, he is doing better than many.)
Perhaps a revisit is in order. Not that the film is a lost classic, but in some ways it might be ahead of its time. While it failed as a 1980s teen comedy, it has some aspects of 1990s teen comedy in it. Particularly such "subversive" films as "Suburbia" or "SLC Punk". Stiggs might have blended in well with those groups...