Craig Hamann wrote and directed this meandering, F-bomb-heavy low-budget action-drama involving a recently-paroled kid in Los Angeles who steps out of prison and immediately into trouble when a close buddy pulls him back into the drug-dealing life. The eclectic cast (including former porn-star Traci Lords, former 'serious actress' Emily Lloyd, rock star Joan Jett as a bar band singer and Frederic Forrest as a burnt-out desert hippie, the kind of role Dennis Hopper used to specialize in) give mostly amateurish performances, which is entirely the fault of Hamann the screenwriter, whose florid dialogue never contains the ring of truth. The scenario has been sexually neutered--reportedly at the request of the film's skittish distributors--though what's left is truly offensive, beginning with a collection of trash-talking junkie characters one would cross the street to avoid. Hamann's occasional artistic attributes behind the camera show a potentially intriguing new talent, but his own flimsy, derivative material ultimately defeats him. *1/2 from ****