Is Greasy Lake as good as T.C. Boyle's short story?

The film "Greasy Lake," directed by Damian Harris, and the original short story by T.C. Boyle share all the elements that make both stories effective in their respective forms of media. While the original genius of the satire comes from T.C. Boyle, it is a credit to Damian Harris for recognizing the importance of each element of the story he retained for the film. Without lines such as "Digby wore a gold star in his let ear and allowed his father to pay for his tuition at Cornell." the story would lose it identity as a satire about "a time when it was good to be bad." The casting of the three main charactersthree relatively small and skinny guysalso helps portray them as phonies posing as bad-ass dudes. Damian Harris's truth to the original story makes this film as good as the original short story. This film should serve as a model to those many filmmakers who find genius in literature and only manage to destroy it on its way to the big screen.

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Summer vacation's just started and three 19-year-old friends decide on a night out cruising, heading for Greasy Lake outside L.A. It turns out more eventful than they expected. (30 min.)

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