White Trash
Directed by Fred Baker, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Jack Betts, Sean Christiansen, John Hartman, Wheaton James, Periel Marr, Brian Patrick, Winnie Thexton.

Extremely low-budget and shot in hand-held Hi-8 video which was later blown up to 35mm, White Trash uses a semi-documentary style to tell the story of teenage hustlers. The movie all takes place on the day they gather to bury one of their friends who has died of AIDS.

This article appears in January 24 • 2003.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.