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Jul 10, 2008 · "The Wackness," which is set in 1994, contains so many drugs, it could have been made in the 1970s, along with "Panic in Needle Park" and other landmarks of the psychotropic generation. The big difference is that drugs have progressed since then from cutting-edge material to background music. Both its hero, who has just graduated from high school, and his shrink, 40 years his senior, are so ...
The Wackness. It's summer in New York City, the year is 1994, and teenage marijuana dealer Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) is trading dime bags for sessions with his therapist, Dr. Squires (Ben Kingsley ...
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- Jonathan Levine
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THE WACKNESS is the most WACKTASTIC, FAN -*$&%ING-TASTIC film of the year! Full Review | Nov 6, 2019 Mattie Lucas From the Front Row
Jul 3, 2008 · The Wackness. Directed by Jonathan Levine. Comedy, Drama, Romance. R. 1h 39m. By A.O. Scott. July 3, 2008. For Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) the summer of 1994 is a notably eventful time. In retrospect ...
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Aug 1, 2008 · The Wackness: Directed by Jonathan Levine. With Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck, Famke Janssen, Olivia Thirlby. It's the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip-hop.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Jonathan Levine
- 2008-08-01
The Wackness is an extremely difficult movie to figure out. On one hand, writer/director Jon Levine paints a captivating story around the friendship of two identifiable protagonists in depressed teenage drug dealer Luke Shapiro, played by an up-to-the-task Josh Peck, and eccentric shrink, Dr. Squires, played by a barely up to the task Ben Kingsley.
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The take. A period comedy set in New York in the summer of 1994, the Wackness is a coming of age story about Luke Shapiro (Joshua Peck), as he deals with family trauma, love, and economic hardship while selling pot to his strange psychologist. Rescued from a somewhat typical bildungsroman plot by sharp character acting, a firm directorial hand ...