The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)
Directed by Penelope Spheeris
The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of this film. With Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, and X.
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The first feature produced by Saturday Night Live's Lorne Michaels, directed by heavy-metal specialist Penelope Spheeris (The Decline of Western Civilization) from a script authored by Myers, Bonnie Turner, and Terry Turner, this has a minimal plot relating to the attempted co-option and exploitation of the lead dudes by evil Chicago entrepreneurs (headed by Rob Lowe), but most of it is just Hellzapoppin-style gags, with a nice turn by Tia Carrere as a Chinese-born heavy-metal performer.
Having directed the punk rock and heavy metal documentaries The Decline of Western Civilization and The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, Spheeris had a Rolling Stone-ready rock cachet and her finger on the pulse of the film's target audience of suburban male youth.