Out of the Blue

Out of the Blue captures the turbulence of youth culture of the early '80s by presenting a three-person nuclear family that is about to implode. In a prologue, Don Barnes (Dennis Hopper), a school bus driver, is drunkenly distracted one day behind the wheel, resulting in a horrible accident. He ...more

Taking its title from a lyric in Neil Young's ode to punk rock, "Hey Hey, My My", Out of the Blue, which uses Young's song on its soundtrack, offers a bleak and unsparing portrait of teenage life in the early '80s. Granted, the deck is stacked pretty high against Cindy Barnes, with Dad just returning from a prison sentence after he drunkenly crashed his school bus, and Mom a full-time junkie. Linda Manz is the scowling kid, a leather-jacketed update of James Dean's Jim from Rebel Without a ...more