6 /10 1 Votes
Initial release 2 June 2006 (Austria) Screenplay Andrew Jones Music director The Revolutions, Splinter | 6.1/10 IMDb Director Andrew Jones Producer Gavin Dando | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cast Ritchie Bessant, Natasha Jerwood, Eloise Howe, Scott Delap Similar The Feral Generation, Out of Hand, The Amityville Asylum, Night of the Living Dead: Re, A Haunting at the Rectory | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Teenage Wasteland is a 2006 drama film written and directed by Welsh director Andrew Jones. It was funded through the independent film company Steel & Glass Films Ltd. The film is a cinema-verite style look into the lives of several disenchanted teens and their dysfunctional home lives in Swansea, south Wales. The cast members are relative unknowns and the characters are all based on people director Jones knew. The scenes featuring the teenagers at home with their parents are shot in black-and-white and the scenes of the teenage characters outside the home are shot in colour.
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Plot
The film is centred on three teenagers in South Wales and follows their lives inside and outside their homes, and touches on drugs, sex, and dysfunction through the teenagers' point of view.
Characters
The film's three main characters are: