Teenage fury detonates in Out of the Blue, Dennis Hopper’s ferocious portrait of youth stranded at the edge of collapse. Fifteen-year-old Cebe (Linda Manz), a sharp-tongued punk misfit, clings to rebellion as an escape from the suffocating grind of adolescence in a bleak industrial town. Her heroin-addicted mother (Sharon Farrell) insists that happiness will finally arrive when her father Don (Hopper) returns home—after serving six years in prison for drunkenly driving his truck into a school bus. But when Don finally reappears, volatile and unrepentant, Cebe is forced to confront the devastating truth that his return only bring destruction, shattering any remaining illusions about love, safety, or the past.

Part punk howl, part shattered-family drama, Out of the Blue stands as Hopper’s most uncompromising film and Linda Manz’s most blisteringly raw performance. As rebellious in its production history as in its spirit, Out of the Blue captures a generation’s disillusionment in real time－where “No Future!” isn’t a slogan but a lived reality.