Alan Boyce, Craig Gilmore, Gilbert Luna

Writer-director Gregg Araki's drama focuses on six Los Angeles gay and lesbian teens and the emotional struggles and isolation they deal with on a daily basis -- in the form of gay bashing, parents' r...( read more  read more... )ejection and more. As they talk about their trials and tribulations, the teens seem completely disengaged from the world; suicide begins to look like an attractive option to Andy (James Duval), who's desperate to escape his painful situation.

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Unrated, 85 min.

Directed by: Gregg Araki

Release Date: December 31, 1994

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DVD Release Date: July 5, 2005

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  • September 23, 2008
    This film had all the ingredients and potential to be a big impressive film, but something just didn't work for me.

    Although it covered all relevant areas, for me the issues covered were not quite shocking enough, we never really got into the minds of the characters, meaning t...( read more)hat whilst you could be empathetic or sympathetic to the situations, it never raised any particular emotions, other than confirmation that this kind of thing happens all the time.
  • October 5, 2009
    Totally F****D UP - a review by Showbiz Jon:

    Coming of age teenage angst, blah, blah?. Docu-drama style, failing on both levels. Some gay liaisons in bite-size melodramatic tableau vivant, coming from nothing and going no-where. A perfectly able bunch of ?actors?, (I suspect i...( read more)t was a first time for most of them) but hogtied by an unrelentingly depressing narrative and dialogue so stiflingly witless and flat, that it makes my torturous teenage coming-out look like a 70?s sitcom.

    A hinted homophobia that barely scratches the surface, does nothing to elevate either the impact or the interest. Horny, arty, thoughtful or just curious? this will satisfy no-one. The fractured edit doesn?t help, each sequence being snatched away before it has time to draw a breath. Imaginative cinematography and clever bargain-basement production values cannot resuscitate this flat-line. With no change of pace or passion and the promise of an adolescence drenched in misery, gay or straight, Totally F*****D UP does what it says on the tin?.

    J
  • September 22, 2009
    Amazing, amazing film.
  • April 19, 2009
    Moving a bit too fast .
  • October 17, 2008
    No thankyou - Not interested
  • April 23, 2008
    A fictionalized account of some of Gregg Araki's experiences growing up, and shot on deliberately amateurish-looking camcorder, Totally F***ed Up takes a little bit of getting used to, but is well worth sticking with. Chronicling the lives of a tight-knit group of gay and ...( read more)lesbian teenagers, the film starts with an interview technique that initially makes the bunch of characters seem pretty annoying and unlikable. Soon though, after listening to their naïve but genuine hopes, fears and dreams, you begin to warm to them. Broken into small chapters or segments with some very funny intertitles, the narrative appears at first random and non-linear but there are actually quite a few running threads and story arcs, the main one being the relationship between Andy (previously someone who declares he doesn't believe in love) and Ian.

    Dated in terms of fashion, music and teen-speak, but tellingly still relevant in terms of attitude and particularly, the way in which sexuality can ghettoize people, Totally F***ed Up remains a successful (though not always subtle) exploration of what it means to be a gay teenager.

  • December 27, 2007
    sounds depressing, no thanks...
  • October 26, 2007
    amazing soundtrack, weird cinematography, works, a great mark of the 90's

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