PARADISE presents SPACKED OUT: 2K Restoration!

“What are you doing here, honey? You’re not even old enough to know how bad life gets.”

“Obviously, Doctor, you’ve never been a 13-year-old girl.”

-The Virgin Suicides

THIS APRIL: Join us as we venture back to the school girl days- telling tails, biting nails, and all the magic and misery of growing up. The Paradise Presents: PUBERTY BLUES- nine films of girlhood woes that’ll make you wonder if you really want to live forever young.

A POIGNANT LOOK AT MODERN DAY YOUTHS IN A WORLD OF CONFUSION. We are thrilled to premiere the new 2K restoration of SPACKED OUT to Toronto Audiences! Lawrence Lau's coming of age romp takes a neon-hued approach to the traumas of girlhood- and the result is a bracingly funny and brutal cinematic gem. 

In the god-forsaken satellite city of Tuen Mun, 13-year-old Cookie suspects she's pregnant. Lately things have not been going her way. Her mother left; her father ignores her; her best friend is in reform school; and her boyfriend is off selling bootleg VCDs in bustling Mong Kok. Flanked by her ride-or-dies Banana, Sissy, and Bean Curd, she journeys into town to find an abortionist.

Director Lawrence Lau updates his 1988 debut Gangs – a shocking account of underage Triads – with an all-girls cast surviving on the lowest rungs of gang-life after the bosses have long gone legit. Swimming in turn-of-century malaise, this Category III youth drama offers a slice of urban grime as our quartet, who can only rely on themselves, navigate drug abuse, bad boyfriends and library books way past their due dates.

(Courtesy of KANI Releasing)

Thursday April 4th, 8 PM/7:30 PM Doors

General Admission $12.50 | Student/Senior (with valid ID) $10.00 + HST/eventbrite fees

Door tickets are available for purchase on the day of screening. Refunds can be requested up to 12 hours before the screening. All refunds must be requested and processed through eventbrite.

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