Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Terminal, USA (1993)


A Japanese-American family. The grandfather is not quite comatose. One son is a drug dealer who's been shot in the leg but won't go to the hospital. The daughter is a cheerleader with a sex tape who's going to run away with a sex trafficker. The other son, the good one, is in high school, dresses neatly and studies hard.

Someone compared the Terminal, USA to an early John Waters movie and I understand the comparison. But Waters' movies had foot fetishes, sex with chickens, incest.... All Terminal, USA had was a gay kid. Was that really considered shocking in 1993?

Filmed on a constructed set. 59 minutes. Directed by Jon Moritsugu.

Available on Fandor.

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