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110 min.
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USA
It's the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip-hop
and wafting with the sweet aroma of marijuana--but change is in the air. The
newly-inaugurated mayor, Rudy Giuliani, is beginning to implement his anti-fun
initiatives against "crimes" like noisy portable radios, graffiti and public
drunkenness. THE WACKNESS takes place in a very different time: a time of pagers, not cell phones, a time in which Tupac and Biggie were alive, one in which Kurt Cobain had only recently taken his own life. Set against this backdrop, Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) spends his last summer before college selling dope throughout New York City, trading it with his shrink (Ben Kingsley) for therapy, while crushing on his step-daughter (Olivia Thirlby). Famke Janssen, Mary Kate Olsen, and Method Man round out the cast in this edgy, bittersweet, and funny coming of age story.
“The Wackness has the polish of a hip music video with the rawness of a gritty documentary.”-Slashfilm, Peter Sciretta
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