Entertainment Weekly, 10/08/1999, p.76, "...Irony, wit, and just a whiff of wisdom..." -- Rating: A-
Chicago Sun-Times, 05/14/1999, p.33, "...[Lillard's] performance dominates the film, and he does a subtle, tricky job of being both an obnoxious punk and a kid in search of his direction in life. He's very good..."
New York Times, 04/16/1999, p.E27, "...SLC PUNK! is likable for its outlandishness..."
Premiere, 04/01/1999, p.30-2, "...Merendino juggles narrative time cleverly..."
Los Angeles Times, 04/16/1999, p.F16, "...It's a sharp, funny and ultimately wise and subtle coming-of-age movie....Rambunctious, explosive, scabrous and relentlessly in your face, SLC PUNK ringingly tells it like it is..."
DVD Features:
Region 1 Encoding
Keep Case
Special Commentary by director James Merendino
Cast Commentary
Isolated Music Soundtrack
Original Comic Book Presentation
Trailers: "SLC" Punk and "Go"
Stevo becomes a punk rebel in Reagan-era Salt Lake City. His ex-hippie father sees his lifestyle as a rite of passage and urges him to attend Harvard Law School like himself- not to sell out to the system, but to buy in. For Stevo, underneath the mohawk haircuts, earrings and leather, the idea, painfully, has some merit.