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The Gun Is Loaded

The Gun Is Loaded

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At the end of the Reagan years, rocker and confrontational performance artist Lydia Lunch launches a broadside. From a formal podium, she attacks the white male power structure of the US. Next she takes on her parents. Then, the volume lowered and the background the streets of New York, she lets us know what she thinks of life, of herself, and of us, anyone who's watching or listening. Life is depression, despair, and death. She's the girl next door gone bad. And us? Compliant sheep. Lunch lays out a challenge.

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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

35 mins

Rating

4.2/10

Release Date

16 December 1989

Country

United States of America

Cast

Lydia Lunch

Lydia Lunch

Herself

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