At the start of the story, the narrator explains that Greasy Lake has gone from being a remarkable natural landmark (noted for the “clarity” of its waters) to a complete cesspool. “Glittering broken glass” and “beer cans and the charred remains of bonfires” line the lake’s edge. As Greasy Lake has grown more and more physically polluted, the behavior of those who live around it. BOYLE Greasy Lake Greasy Lake It's about a mile down on the dark side of Route 88. Bruce Springsteen There was a time when courtesy and winning ways went out of style, when it was good to be bad, when you cultivated decadence like a taste. We were all dangerous characters then.
| Greasy Lake | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Damian Harris |
| Produced by | Margaret Goldsmith David Bartlett Damian Harris Philip S. Miller Jim Steele[citation needed] |
| Written by | Damian Harris |
| Based on | 'Greasy Lake' by T. Coraghessan Boyle |
| Starring | Eric Stoltz James Spader |
| Narrated by | Tom Waits |
| Music by | Ron Bartlett Oscar Mitt |
| Cinematography | Miles Cook |
| Edited by | David Bartlett |
| Distributed by | PBS (TV) JCI Video |
| 1988 (USA) | |
Running time | 30 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
- Coraghessan Boyle At night, we went up to Greasy Lake. Whatever it was we were looking for, we weren’t about to find it at Greasy Lake. Greasy Lake has 24 ratings and 2 reviews. Marc Gerstein said: Wow, this is one heck of a short the basic premise of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Of.
- At night, we went up to Greasy Lake. Through the center of town, up the strip, past the housing developments and shopping malls, streetlights giving way to the thin streaming illumination of the headlights, trees crowding the asphalt in a black unbroken wall: that was the way out to Greasy Lake.
Greasy Lake is a 1988 American short drama film based on the short story 'Greasy Lake' by T. Coraghessan Boyle. It was directed by Damian Harris and stars Eric Stoltz and James Spader.
Plot[edit]
At the start of summer vacation, three 19-year-old friends set out cruising on a trip toward Greasy Lake outside Los Angeles that ends up being more eventful than they expected.
Cast[edit]
- Eric Stoltz as T.C.
- James Spader as Digby
- Tegan West as Jeff
- Cisco Pike as Bad Ass
- Dirty Dick as Biker
- Freaky Frank as Biker
- Jeff Edwards as Hitch Hiker
- Julie Dolan as Bad Ass' Girlfriend
- Annabel Harris as Bad Girl #1
- Denise Crosby as Bad Girl #2
- Tom Waits as Narrator
Release[edit]
The film was shown at the American Film Institute Festival in 1988 and was later released with three other short films on the 1990 videocassette The Discovery Program, volume 1, distributed by JCI Video.[1]
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References[edit]
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- ^Learning, Gale, Cengage (3 April 2018). 'A Study Guide for T. C. Boyle's 'Greasy Lake''. Gale, Cengage Learning – via Google Books.
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External links[edit]
- Greasy Lake on IMDb