Smithereens

The under-produced opening, from director Susan Seidelman, shooting on 16mm, annoyed protagonist Wren (Susan Berman) barely meets provincial Paul (Brad Rinn), heading for the short-lived 45th Street incarnation of New York’s Peppermint Lounge, from Smithereens, 1982.

Wren (Susan Berman), still more interested in her aimless self-promotion than in her non-committal date with Paul (Brad Rinn), diverts completely when director Susan Seidelman’s leading man, New York punk and culture pioneer Richard Hell, makes his first appearance, in Smithereens, 1982.