The Doom Generation

Director: Gregg Araki
Genre: Black comedy, LGBT, Comedy, Action, Crime Fiction, Thriller, Indie, Cult, Gay, Gay Interest, Gay Themed, Road movie, Teen, Drama
Year: 1995
Country: United States of America, France
Language: English Language
Starring: James Duval, Rose McGowan, Johnathon Schaech, Margaret Cho, Amanda Bearse, Cress Williams, Dustin Nguyen, Lauren Tewes, Christopher Knight, Nicky Katt, Parker Posey, Perry Farrell, Heidi Fleiss

The Doom Generation is a film by director Gregg Araki. Released in 1995, it stars Rose McGowan, James Duval and Johnathon Schaech as two teenagers and a 21-year-old punk drifter who become involved in a ménage à trois. It is the second of a trilogy of films known as the Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy, the first being Totally Fucked Up and the last Nowhere. It was Araki's first movie to deal with a heterosexual relationship, and is billed in the opening titles as "A Heterosexual Movie by Gregg Araki".

Teenage lovers Jordan White (Duval) and Amy Blue (McGowan) pick up a handsome drifter named Xavier Red (Schaech) while driving home from a club. Jordan gives Xavier the nickname "X". A late-night stop at a convenience store leaves the three on the run when X accidentally kills the store's owner (Dustin Nguyen). The trio hides in a motel to avoid arrest. While Jordan and Amy have sex in the bath tub, X learns from the local television news program that the store owner's wife (Margaret Cho) disemboweled her children with a machete before committing suicide, thus, he concludes, removing any possibility of the trio being caught by the police.

Later that evening, Amy has sex with X, even though

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