Suburbia: The Screenplay of the Film Written by Eric Bogosian and Directed by Richard Linklater

by Eric Bogosian

Book Overview

Suburbia is about a group of suburban twenty-year-olds who get together by a convenience store one autumn night to welcome an old pal returning from a successful national tour with his rock band. His... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031216615X
• ISBN13: 9780312166151
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

If you liked the movie...

...you have to read the book! SubUrbia is one of my favorite movies, and I thought I'd read it also. There are several parts in the book that didn't make it to the movie. Also, I finished it in two sittings, so it's not very time consuming.

Gen. X's dramatic voice.

This is one of the most powerful plays I've read (and performed in). Eric Bogosian has captured Gen. X and raised his middle finger to all those who question us. Tragic and beautiful! Skip the movie though. It didn't come close to the play.

SUBURBIA: A Slice of Life from a Rotting Orange

SUBURBIA is the hilarious at times and unsettling at others story of a group of friends who are awaiting the arrival of a high school classmate who is now a rockstar complete with annoying pretentious twit girlfriend in tow. These kids are bitter, hard, and cold, but it's only because they don't feel like they've gotten the best of opportunities. From the ex-military drunkerd, to the goofy pizza guy, to the bitter punk who screams "F--k Oliver Stone,f--k Bill Clinton,f--k O.J. Simpson...",etc.,etc. and calls it an art piece about testosterone, to the girl's boyfriend who's on thin ice, is the most grounded of the group, and seems to be headed nowhere and care about it. Well-written by the crafty Bogosian, this is a representation of every little town in America akin to my town of Wilsonville,Oregon. Sad and poignant.

A sad, funny, unsettling slice of life

Suburbia brought out all the feelings I have being a member of that generation of young adults that seem like their working towards nothing. Taking class after class while working dead end jobs that will eventually do nothing but make you unappreciated by your boss, ignored by your family, and eventually forgotten. Many people sadly see the world like that, and that's what this play is about, a group of people's fight against and acceptance of hopelessness. Relief is so far off into the future that it does no good. The characters are bold and able to relate to in a story that could've been sophmoric and gone for cheap laughs. Bogosian is the master of the dark comedy.He has a knack for the human condition unlike any writer. Specifically, read the scene between BeeBee and Jeff. It is brilliant

Great

It showed me how poeples lives could never change