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Paranoid Park is a 2007 coming of age teen drama film written, directed and edited by Gus Van Sant. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Blake Nelson and takes place in Portland, Oregon. It is the story of a teenage skateboarder (played by Gabe Nevins) set against the backdrop of a police investigation into a mysterious death.
Alex ( Gabe Nevins ), the skateboarding protagonist of Gus Van Sant ’s Paranoid Park, faces a host of challenges common in coming-of-age fiction. There are distant parents ( Grace Carter and Jay Williamson) entangled in divorce, and there’s the peer pressure to have sex.
Mar 27, 2008 · In Blake Nelson's novel, Paranoid Park, a 16-year-old skateboarder is implicated when a transit cop is killed at the local skate park, and withdraws into silence as a way of dealing with it....
Oct 24, 2007 · Paranoid Park: Directed by Gus Van Sant. With Gabe Nevins, Daniel Liu, Jake Miller, Taylor Momsen. A teenage skateboarder's life begins to fray after he is involved in the accidental death of a security guard.
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Mar 7, 2008 · When a Portland teenager accidentally kills a security guard at the local skate park, he pulls into himself rather than talking to the police. Gus Van Sant's film explores the teen's thoughts and...
Mar 13, 2008 · Detective Lu, investigating a nasty death in the train yard by Paranoid Park, inquires into his whereabouts on the night in question. The interrogation is casual on the surface and fraught with tension beneath.
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The story centers on an accidental murder that's shown near the end in graphic images (a boy slams a security guard running after a train with his skateboard, the man falls under an oncoming train on parallel tracks and is cut in half, and his top half crawls toward the boy).
