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Straight Outta Tompkins
A dramatic, realistic picture that shows honestly and unashamedly the violence and danger associated with teenagers' use of drugs. That image is embodied by the young American who lives in New York after becoming a drug addict living a life of comedy mixed with violence and violence at the same time.
21 May 1948, Amherst, Ohio, USA
20 June 1947, Kingston, New York, USA
29 May 1953, Mokena, Illinois, USA
13 September 1968, San Juan, Puerto Rico
March 03, 2015
Straight Outta Tompkins is rarely boring, but neither does it come close to attaining the hard-hitting moral force its creator is clearly striving for.
March 09, 2015
Zephyr Benson wrote, directed, produced and starred in this fitfully engaging but unconvincing account of his own tumultous, drug-addled youth.
March 04, 2015
Only in his early 20s, Zephyr Benson makes a remarkably assured debut as writer, director and star of "Straight Outta Tompkins," his tongue-in-cheek title for his past as a middle-class drug dealer in lower Manhattan.
March 05, 2015
"Straight Outta Tompkins" undeniably commands attention but also strives for authenticity ham-handedly.
