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In a parallel 1995, all grown-ups have died from a mysterious virus,
and thus high school kids have taken over Potter's Bluff - and show they
do it hardly any better than the adults, as the small town is soon divided
into the East Side, where the poor kids live, and the West Side, home of
the rich, who have made the high school itself their headquarters where
top jock Jeremy (Munro Chambers) rules with an iron fist and has created a
circle of loyal jocks around him called the Titans. East Sider
Jack (Alexandre Bourgeois) has taken it upon himself to run raids on Titan
delivery trucks to steal their water supply for his own folks, but at one
such raid he walks into an ambush and is taken captive. Now it's up to his
sister Nat (Madison Iseman) and her girlfriend Scratch (Paloma
Kwiatkowski) to free him before Jeremy can set an example - which is sure
to involve violence -, but they're but two, and even though a West Side
renegade, Sony (Ajay Friese), promises to help them, the odds are stacked
against them. But fortunately not everything is as drastic as it seems on
the west Side, and not everyone is entirely content with the way Jeremy
handles things ... This film sure has 1980s teen dystopia
written all over it, borrowing freely from films like Red
Dawn, The Warriors, The Outsiders and the like, but
also John Hughes high school comedies - but somehow it doesn't feel at all
derivative, thanks in part to the film's punk attitude, but also that it
tells its story in an original way, and while the style of the movie might
evoke memories of 80s cinema, the story's undercurrents, political and
otherwise, are deeply rooted in the now. Plus, the whole thing's very
well-paced, with the excitement level high almost throughout, and it
doesn't take itself too seriously, to ultimately be really good
fun.
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