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Excellent, Without a doubt!!

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

When it comes to catch the New York Underground 19-eighties-mood, 'Smithereens' hits it right. This film really makes a lovely reminder for everyone around at the time, as well as a perfect introduction for those who weren't.Of course 'Smithereens' music is quite in tune. Nevertheless, the most appealing part is made by its picturing. The fine use of colors truly stands out here.Be prepared to have yourself carried back to the depressive New York-eighties. 'Smithereens' surely won't fill you with joy, and is even a little boring at times. The female lead makes a skinny girl, representing those skinny times.

Wren (Susan Berman) is a restless young woman trying to break into the music scene in NY of the early 1980s. A young, handsome and trusting man named Paul (Brad Rijn) falls for her--but she just uses him and tries to hook up with self-centered Eric (Richard Hell) who says he has contacts to get a career going.This was a very impressive directorial debut by Susan Seidelman. It was made on a very low-budget and had mostly nonprofessional actors. It was surprisingly a favorite with critics and a success with art house college audiences of 1982. However it's pretty much disappeared since then. It's easy to see why. The clothes, music and attitudes are all clearly from the early 1980s. Most college kids today wouldn't know what to make of this. Still it's a good movie and, as a college kid from that era, I can honestly say this caught the look and feel of that time expertly. Purportedly this is also a pretty accurate portrayal about how the Village was way back then--hard to believe it was 25 years ago.The film itself is gritty and negative and looks cheap--but that's because it was and it actually helps the movie. Seidelman's direction was actually pretty assured considering it was her first feature movie. Also, for the most part, the acting is good--Rijn in particular stands out. The only negatives I can think of is that is a depressing movie and Berman is miscast. She's a good actress but seems far too intelligent for the character she's playing.Worth catching--especially for men and women who were in college in the early 1980s. It will really take you back! I give it an 8.

I watched this film probably about 2 years ago at some very early hour of the morning. The Smithereens was one of those films which was strangely compelling in an empty sort of way, there is this incredibly overpowering early 80's economically, socially and artistically bleak skew on everything. This feeling alone makes the film worth watching, and the completely disconnected and irrelevant life of the main character evokes strange emotions of sympathy and intense loneliness. I can't tell you much about the story-line other than it is following the life of a young woman who is a bit of a miscreant and is getting nowhere incredibly fast. Desolation, vacuity and depression at its best!

Considering the extremely low budget, this film is pretty impressive. It starts out entertaining and absorbing as we get to know the main character and all the travels and travails she encounters on her quest for fame. However, the story doesn't develop much after that and pretty much goes nowhere, leaving the view bored and waiting for something to materialize.