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Condition
New: An item that is still in its original shrink wrap from the manufacturer and the original ...
Type
Movie
Region Code
DVD: 1 (US, Canada...)
Language
English, French
Video Format
NTSC
Case Type
Tall/DVD Case
Subtitle Language
French, Spanish
Features
Captioned, Widescreen
Run Time
99 Mins.
Studio
Sony Pictures
UPC
0043396271838
Format
DVD
Release Year
2009
Actor
Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley
Rating
R
Director
Jonathan Levine
Genre
Comedy
Movie/TV Title
Wackness

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Palpable heat, complete with sweltering lens flares, washes over the mental and emotional currents of writer-director Jonathan Levine's THE WACKNESS. As the summer months of 1994 pass in three naturally marked acts, the neon pop of a pained youth culture's graffiti art punctuates Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's New York City and its palette of washed-out darks and midtones. This part-familiar, part-engagingly new coming-of-age story suggests the Giuliani administration's "cleaning up" of the city as a metaphorical model of how not to approach the pain of living. The philosophical critique of sweeping the ugly under the rug, seeing it as nothing but a disservice to oneself, comes courtesy of the advice and attempted practice of gonzo-druggie psychiatrist Dr. Squires (Ben Kingsley) and the struggle of his teenage pot-dealing patient, Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck). The only way to live life, says Squires, who accepts marijuana as payments for Luke's therapy sessions, is to embrace it in all its excruciating throes.THE WACKNESS is an appropriately self-aware dark comedy that separates itself from coming-of-age films set in earlier eras by pointing to its own genre's conventions (through blunt articulation and express devoicing, alternately) as much as it does its themes and sentiments. Peck delivers a layered performance as Luke. The laconic stoner's heavy-lidded, steely stares and draggy attempts to be cool, and his statements that sound like questions at vulnerable moments ("I got this for you, yo," he says shyly in his white-boy hip-hop intonation as he hands a gift to Squires's stepdaughter Stephanie, the girl he's fallen in love with), are belied by a natural intelligence and a growing anxiety. Incidentally, beautiful Manhattan native Olivia Thirlby (JUNO) is perfect as dream girl Stephanie. All this feverish imagery is emotionally enveloped by THE WACKNESS's ‘90s hip-hop soundtrack, which features the Notorious B.I.G. and A Tribe Called Quest.

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0043396271838
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Actor
Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley
Rating
R
Movie/TV Title
Wackness
Director
Jonathan Levine
Format
DVD
Release Year
2009
Genre
Comedy

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs
1
Country/Region of Manufacture
USA
LeafCats
617
Leading Role
Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley
Release Date
20090106
Film Country
USA

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  • The Wackness

    This film was everything a movie should be. Great direction, acting, writing, and everything else! The acting was superb. Josh Peck really showed that not only is he a wonderful comical actor, but he is an incredible dramatic actor, as well. He was just perfect in this role, and he was able to carry the film with ease. Hopefully we will be seeing a whole lot more of this actor, for he has given the breakthrough performance of the year. Ben Kingsly was, as usual, great. He provides a comical character and creates a character so entertaining, you can't help but smile once he appears on screen. Olivia Thirlby worked very well as Peck's love interest, and Mary-Kate Olsen showed that she has the potential to break away from her child star mold and start a promising film career. And ...

  • Love the cast and the movie

    Loved the actors and the intertwined events going on throughout the movie. The ending was good to.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: analogheartx

  • it's good

    i t was a great movie

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: jherby79

  • The Wackness

    Great

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: wonderbooks

  • the wackness.

    captures a 90s feel of ny and ow it was back in the day. captures a persons first love and a sense of trying to be accepted. great movie and great acting by olivia thirlby and josh peck. method man and ben kingsley light up the screen. music without a question was just DOPE. "the what" in the scene where luke shapiro is with method mans character is just amazing.