Bomb City (2017) on Netflix
Brian Deneke, 19, promotes punk shows in Amarillo, Texas, booking touring bands at a rundown venue. Amarillo's punk teenagers and the jocks of the Tascosa Rebels football team clash often.
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- Netflix3.6/5
- IMDb6.8/109,040 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes75%
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Plot summary
Brian Deneke is 19 and lives in Amarillo, Texas. He is part of the punk scene there and works as a show promoter, arranging gigs for touring punk bands at a shabby venue in town. Many local teenagers follow punk music and the subculture around it, and they regularly come up against the jocks of the Tascosa Rebels, a football team at one of the local high schools. The punks also clash with a wealthier rival clique. That feud leads to a hate crime, and the case afterward raises hard questions about justice in America. Amarillo's nuclear weapons facilities earned the city the nickname Bomb City.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Bomb City (2017)
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- Bomb City dramatizes the 1997 killing of 19-year-old punk musician Brian Theodore Deneke, who was struck in a deliberate hit-and-run in Amarillo, Texas, by 17-year-old Dustin Camp. Camp was convicted of voluntary vehicular manslaughter and received ten years' probation and a $10,000 fine, which was later dropped.
- The killing and the result of the trial against Camp stirred the punk community and led to claims about how tolerant the Texan city was.
- Bomb City was the first feature film directed by Jameson Brooks, who wrote the script with fellow Amarillo native Sheldon Chick.
