Ten Thousand Saints (R)

synopsis

A coming-of-age story about three teenagers in late 1980s New York City - Jude, new to the city from Vermont, "straight-edge" musician Johnny, and troubled, rich uptown girl Eliza -- who break away from their messed up parents to form their own surrogate family. Set in 1988, a time of great cultural upheaval - against the excesses of the decade, the AIDS epidemic and the gentrification of the city culminating in the infamous Tompkins Square Park riots.