Trash

A Phoenix pick

The title of Mark Anthony Galluzzo's debut feature ostensibly refers to the film's characters -- high-schoolers trapped in a Southern backwater who spend their days smoking pot, stealing booze, and doing doughnuts in a Ford flatbed. Within the first minutes, one of the friends is killed accidentally by a hunter, and after that loss of innocence the film focuses on Sonny, a brawling ne'er-do-well from a dysfunctional family, and Anthony, who comes from the same circumstances but reads Balzac during shop class. Although Trash often resorts to cliché (the kid with a brain trying to make it out of town despite his buddies' negative influence, the sainted mom working 15-hour nights, the poor-guy/rich-girl romance), the acting is commendable and the plot twist in the last half-hour makes the film -- the ending is shocking, recalling the final cataclysms of both Joe and Bonnie and Clyde. Trash depicts the fine line that exists, in the rural South and anywhere, between destruction and redemption. Screens at the Copley Place Monday, September 13 at 7:30 and 10:10 p.m. and Tuesday, September 14 at 11:15 a.m. and 2:15 and 4:45 p.m.

-- Michael Miliard

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Film Festival Feature Films

| The Minus Man | The Tavern | Black Eyed Dog | The Last September | A Wake in Providence | Man of the Century | Pups | Dreaming of Joseph Leeds | Wisdom of Crocodiles | That's The Way I Like It | American Beauty | Mifune | Black Cat, White Cat | Hit and Runway | All the LIttle Animals | Me Myself I | The Alchemist and the Virgin | Trash | Old Man River | The Poet and the Con | Snow Falling on Cedars | Guinevere | East is East | American Movie | Rivers of Babylon | Two Ninas | Rats | Keepers of the Frame | The Runner |

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