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Lost Angels (also known as The Road Home) is a 1989 independent film directed by Hugh Hudson and written by Michael Weller. It stars Donald Sutherland and Adam Horovitz. It was filmed in and around San Antonio, Texas. The film was entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.
A troubled youth from a split Los Angeles family is sent to a private psychiatric hospital after a violent scrape with the police. In the hospital, he makes a connection with one of the doctors...
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May 5, 1989 · Lost Angels: Directed by Hugh Hudson. With Donald Sutherland, Adam Horovitz, Amy Locane, Don Bloomfield. A troubled youth from a split Los Angeles family is sent to a private psychiatric hospital after a violent scrape with the police.
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- 1989-05-05
Mar 25, 2024 · Lost Angels (also known as The Road Home) is a 1989 independent film directed by Hugh Hudson and written by Michael Weller. It stars Donald Sutherland and Adam Horovitz (Ad-Rock from Beastie Boys).
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- Lost Angels Could've Been The Beginning of King Ad-Rock's Acting career.
- Lost Angels Foreshadowed Modern Cultural Appropriation in Suburbia.
- Lost Angels Showcased The Broken Health Care System.
- Lost Angels Showed Viewers A Different Side of The Special Needs World.
- Lost Angels Is One of The Top 5 Best Youth Culture Films of The 1980s.
Alright, this may sound like a little farcical but Adam Horovitz is exceptional in the role of Tim Doolan. He moves through the picture like a lost puppy in search of a home. Any home. Yet, there is a believability in his performance. Adam Horovitz always exuded cool in the Beastie Boys. His ability to convey that while still being vulnerable in th...
In 1989, NWA's "Straight Outta Compton" was still a big deal. However it wasn't as in the cultural mainstream as it would eventually become. I bring this up because in Lost Angels, Tim Doolan was a part of an all-white gang called Dead At Birth. What was fascinating about them, aside from their preppy look, was the fact that they all had Latino nic...
The residents of the rehab facility in Lost Angels sadly know too much about their situation. They know they messed up (most likely because they got caught) and have been sent to this facility to get the help they need. Unfortunately, for many of the young people there, it doesn't go much further than that. Many of them are repeat visitors. They kn...
When viewers think of people with special needs they often think of special needs they can see. As somebody who works in that field, this is something that I work with on a daily basis. Point blank, society doesn't seem to think of "at risk" youth as having special needs. The world sees characters like the ones in Lost Angels and, frankly, they won...
As I have mentioned before, Lost Angels is a largely forgotten film. This isn't surprising. It's very hard to compete with The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and the other films in the John Hughes oeuvre. Let's not forget that this is also the decade that brought us Stand By Me, The Outsiders, Rumble Fish and a host of other films that cr...
The movie argues that all of its “lost angels” have been squeezed out of families, and Tim has a love affair with a deeply unhappy young woman whose mother clearly wishes to be rid of her. “Lost Angels” avoids a lot of obvious cliches, treats its characters with dignity and develops them as specific individuals.
Tim Doolan (Adam Horovitz) is a troubled Los Angeles teen with a history of mischievous, sometimes criminal behavior. His self-centered parents are too preoccupied with their own personal...
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