TY - SER
KW - teenagers
KW - coal industry
AU - Ron Nyswaner
AB - Teenage punk rocker Rupert Marshetta (Keanu Reeves) and his older, hippie girlfriend (Amy Madigan) kidnap Rupert’s miserable, coal miner father (Fred Ward) to gain the family’s money and flee small town life.
C1 - 1980s
C2 - unpublished
C3 - Western Pennsylvania
C4 - Comedy; Satire
LA - English
M3 - Screenplay
N1 - The film was shot in Allegheny County's Pittsburgh and Harmar Twp., Butler County's Mars and Zelienople, and Washington County's Houston and Smith Twp.

The script is now held in Beverly Hills at the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
N2 - Teenage punk rocker Rupert Marshetta (Keanu Reeves) and his older, hippie girlfriend (Amy Madigan) kidnap Rupert’s miserable, coal miner father (Fred Ward) to gain the family’s money and flee small town life.
PY - 1988
RN - Ron Nyswaner (1956— ), born in Clarksville, Greene County, is a screenwriter and activist. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, he's best known for his 1993 screenplay <em>Philadelphia</em> about HIV/AIDS and homophobia.
EP - 104 p.
TI - The Prince of Pennsylvania
ER -