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Emerald Cities

Emerald Cities

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1983

Runtime

1h 31m

Genres

Comedy, Music

User Score

57%

Original Title

Emerald Cities

Production Companies

Target Video

Director

Rick Schmidt

Description

Emerald Cities, completing the trilogy, is a story about a young woman who runs off from her Death Valley home to seek her fortune. Her drunken dad still stuck in his Santa suit from the local Christmas pagent, follows and soon comes in contact with the "new dark ages" of 1984. Juxtapositions of "on-the street" interviews (by Willie Boy Walker), punk performances by bands Flipper and The Mutants, TV shows of past-life hypnotism and nuclear destruction, and a crazed ex-con all finally intermix with the characters' own sagas.