Gypsy 83: The Director's Cut

Cult Goth Road Trip Movie “Gypsy 83” Returns in a Restored Director’s Cut — Expanded Soundtrack Features The Cure, Cocteau Twins, Echo & the Bunnymen, and More!

Twenty-five years is enough time for a cult film to acquire the patina of a period piece, but Gypsy 83 has always been preoccupied with people who regard the present tense as something to survive. Todd Stephens’s 2001 road trip movie follows two goth outsiders in Sandusky, Ohio: Gypsy Vale, played by Sara Rue, and her younger friend Clive Webb, played by Birkett Turton, whose devotion to Stevie Nicks offers both an aesthetic vocabulary and a pla…

Gypsy 83: The Director's Cut

Gypsy 83 wants to be a movie about misfits, but it just isn’t brave enough to be one itself. This sweet coming-of-age tale follows two young goth besties, Gypsy and Clive, on a quest from their repressive small town to a Stevie Nicks tribute festival in New York City, confronting their identities and past traumas along the way. Sara Rue and Kett Turton give endearing performances, and director Todd Stephens has an eye for the trappings of scene …