Terry Zwigoff's 2001 adaptation of Daniel Clowes' comic finds its way to the screen at The Beverly Theater, bringing Enid Coleslaw and Rebecca's deadpan, disaffected wander through post-high school suburbia to downtown Las Vegas. Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson lead this cult classic about two teenage misfits navigating boredom, thrift store finds, and the particular alienation of small-town American life, with Steve Buscemi rounding out the cast as the record-collecting oddball who becomes an unlikely object of fascination.
The film's muted color palette and dry humor should feel right at home in The Beverly's intimate 150-seat theater, where the acoustics and close quarters lend themselves well to a movie built on awkward silences and mumbled asides. Anyone with a soft spot for late-90s/early-2000s indie sensibility, or a curiosity about how a comic book's specific brand of teenage ennui translates to film, might find this a good excuse for an evening out in the Arts District.