Ten Thousand Saints

Adapted from the novel by Eleanor Henderson, TEN THOUSAND SAINTS is a story about three teenagers in late 1980s New York City — Jude (Asa Butterfield), new to the city from Vermont, “straight-edge” musician Johnny (Emile Hirsch), and troubled, rich uptown girl Eliza (Hailee Steinfeld) -- who break away from their messed up parents (Ethan Hawke and Emily Mortimer) to form their own surrogate family.  Set in 1988, a time of great cultural upheaval - against the excesses of the decade, the AIDS epidemic and the gentrification of the city culminating in the infamous Tompkins Square Park riots — TEN THOUSAND SAINTS is a nostalgia trip to a bygone era of New York City.