Liquid Sky
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The film poster
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| Directed by | Slava Tsukerman |
| Produced by | Slava Tsukerman Nina V. Kerova Robert E. Field |
| Written by | Slava Tsukerman Anne Carlisle Nina V. Kerova |
| Starring |
Anne Carlisle Paula E. Sheppard |
| Music by |
Slava Tsukerman Clive Smith Brenda I. Hutchinson |
| Cinematography | Yuri Neyman |
| Edited by | Sharyn L. Ross |
| Distributed by | Cinevista Media Home Entertainment |
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112 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | US$500,000 |
Liquid Sky is an independent American science fiction film. It debuted at the Montreal Film festival in August 1982 and was well received at several film festivals thereafter. It was produced with a budget of $500,000. It became the most successful independent film of 1983 grossing $1.7 million in the first several months of release.
The film is seen as heavily influencing a club scene that emerged in the early 2000s in Brooklyn, Berlin, Paris, and London called electroclash.
Amidst the bohemian new wave subculture of New York City in the early 1980s, an avant garde fashion show is to be held in a new wave nightclub in Manhattan. Among the models are bisexual Margaret (Anne Carlisle) and Jimmy (also played by Carlisle). Jimmy is Margaret's rival and nemesis. An apparent drug addict, he constantly hassles Margaret's heroin-dealer girlfriend Adrian (Paula E. Sheppard) for drugs but has no money to pay for them.
Before the show, Jimmy suggests to Margaret that they go to her place, but once there he only cares about finding Adrian's stash of heroin (known in New York in the '70s and '80s as liquid sky). An alien spacecraft — about the size of a dinner plate — lands on the rooftop of Margaret and Adrian's penthouse apartment. A tiny, shapeless alien watches the apartment from inside the UFO.
Adrian performs "Me and My Rhythm Box" at the club. Margaret and Jimmy return to the club to participate in the show. During preparations, both agree to a photo shoot the following night on Margaret's rooftop. They are assured there will be plenty of drugs available.
Margaret and Jimmy perform in the nightclub fashion show. Seeking cocaine, Margaret connects with Californian soap opera actor and son of a TV producer, Vincent (Jack Adalist) who is offering cocaine to all the women at the club. Back at Margaret's apartment she rejects Vincent when all he offers are Quaaludes, but he beats and rapes her.
Across town, middle class Katherine (Elaine C. Grove) revoices her objection to the heroin use of her boyfriend, failed writer and heroin addict Paul (Stanley Knap). German scientist Johann Hoffman (Otto Von Wernherr) arrives in New York, and secretly observes the aliens from the Empire State Building observation deck. At the apartment Paul buys heroin from Adrian, and tries to seduce Margaret.
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