CREEMEDIA

Smithereens is the story of a no-talent girl from New Jersey trying to make a name for herself in the “glamorous” punk rock fast track of New York’s decaying “new music” scene. The film was shot on location by unknown Susan Seidelman, making her directorial debut with a spartan budget of $100,000—the kind of bucks that don’t even buy toothpicks in today’s megadollar film mentality.