Suburbia (also known as Rebel Streets and The Wild Side) is a 1983 American coming-of-age thriller drama film written and directed by Penelope Spheeris and produced by Roger Corman.

The punks are played by Chris Pedersen, Bill Coyne, Timothy Eric O'Brien, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea and others.

[5] Sheila, a hitchhiking teenage runaway, is picked up on Interstate 605 in the Greater Los Angeles Area by a woman with a toddler.

Another teenage runaway, Evan Johnson, leaves his suburban home and abusive, alcoholic mother, ending up at a punk rock concert by D.I., where Keef slips drugs into his drink.

The next morning, several men from "Citizens Against Crime", including Jim Tripplett and Bob Skokes, kill local stray dogs in a drive-by shooting.

kids Razzle and Skinner confront them, but the situation is defused by Jack's stepfather, police Officer Bill Rennard.

When Evan sees on the news that his mother has been arrested for drunk driving, he collects his younger brother, Ethan, and brings him to live at T.R.

The men (Possibly Citizens Against Crime members) with whom they were fighting enter the concert and stab a security guard, framing the T.R.

At a Citizens Against Crime meeting, they accuse Bill and the rest of the police of not doing enough to curb the teenagers' criminal behavior, declaring their willingness to take the law into their own hands.

Cameos Director Penelope Spheeris was inspired to write and direct the film when seeing a lack of release for her punk documentary The Decline of Western Civilization (1981).

"[2] Vincent Canby called the film a "clear-eyed, compassionate melodrama about a bunch of young dropouts" and "probably the best teen-agers-in-revolt movie since Jonathan Kaplan's Over the Edge.