Kaboom

20102010
K-15K-15
1h 26m

5.7/10

Comedy Mystery Romance

A sexually "undeclared" college freshman's clairvoyant/prophetic dreams are the first sign that something very strange is going on involving his class-mates -- with him at the center.A sexually "undeclared" college freshman's clairvoyant/prophetic dreams are the first sign that something very strange is going on involving his class-mates -- with him at the center.A sexually "undeclared" college freshman's clairvoyant/prophetic dreams are the first sign that something very strange is going on involving his class-mates -- with him at the center.

5.7/10

13K

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Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations

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Kaboom

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Thomas Dekker, Juno Temple, and Haley Bennett in Kaboom (2010)

Gregg Araki, Thomas Dekker, and Juno Temple in Kaboom (2010)

Kelly Lynch, Haley Bennett, and Chris Zylka in Kaboom (2010)

Gregg Araki, Roxane Mesquida, and Haley Bennett in Kaboom (2010)

Smith's everyday life in the dorm - hanging out with his arty, sarcastic best friend Stella, hooking up with a beautiful free spirit named London, lusting for his gorgeous but dim surfer roommate Thor - all gets turned upside-down after one fateful, terrifying night. —Toronto International Film Festival

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Trivia
Inspired by a conversation Gregg Araki had with John Waters.

Quotes
Stella: You meet some guy on a nude beach and after five minutes later you're downloading his hard drive in the back of a van? You're a slut.

Connections
Featured in Ebert Presents: At the Movies: No Strings Attached/The Company Men/The Way Back/The Dilemma/The Green Hornet (2011)

Soundtracks
Saturday
Written by Dan Whitford
Performed by Cut Copy
Courtesy of Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd.
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

Top review

Taking teen angst to apocalypse

Gregg Araki's breakthrough film, 1992's THE LIVING END, was a gay THELMA & LOUISE in the age of AIDS, very cutting edge, and I thought he'd go much further than he did but, then again, big things were also predicted for John Dahl (RED ROCK WEST, THE LAST SEDUCTION) at the time. Oh, well. Anyway, Araki's been on the indie scene ever since and KABOOM takes his "apocalyptic teen angst" series (TOTALLY F***ED UP, THE DOOM GENERATION, NOWHERE, MYSTERIOUS SKIN) on a psychedelic roller coaster ride to a trippy -and inevitable- eve of destruction. It's a stylish (with vivid colors you can eat with a spoon), funny, sexy, college-set CLUELESS-on-acid that morphs into a cross between Sergio Martino's ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK and THE WIZARD OF OZ after a horny, existentialistic film student begins to realize he may be at the center of a global conspiracy with cataclysmic consequences. Fairly indescribable, free-wheeling sci-fi fun that'll leave you with a WTF? feeling. I liked it.

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