Ben Kingsley, Famke Janssen, Josh Peck
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 be...( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 6, 2009
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August 23, 2009Call me crazy, like all the characters in this movie, but I really liked this film. : )
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July 22, 2009New York City, Summer of 1994. Meet Luke Shapiro, a new High School graduate, the most unpopular of the popular kids, drug dealer. Through out the Summer, Luke learns about relationships. He learns about love, responsibility, friendship, and about what's truly important.
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June 27, 2009Pretty good movie, interesting premise and well-acted execution. At times very real.
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June 12, 2009The Wackness is more concerned with "being" 1994 than it is having a decent story or being something new. Peck has already proved himself as one of the great actors of his generation, thanks to his brilliant role in Mean Creak. Here, his character is dull, but Peck injects enough...( read more)
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April 27, 2009THE WACKNESS is a film so determined to be quirky, hip, and fresh that it comes off as being dull and generic... but with a gimmick (first film to depict 90s culture in all it's glory)! Seriously though, I found the characters completely unlikeable (though Kingsley was enjoyable ...( read more)
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November 17, 2009Near classic -- and I may be underestimating it by writing "near". The screenplay is intelligent and realistic and funny. The two stars both give superb performances. Unlike most drug-related movies it is neither a piece of foolish anti-drug propaganda nor of stoner silliness. St...( read more)
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September 22, 2009I enjoyed this...Josh and Ben were great! Worth the watch.Josh sure has grown up..I LOVE Ben!!
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September 21, 2009this was a really supprise to me, i thought this was going to be teen trash! Some kind of dance of, but what you have is a verry well written and acted story of love confusion and the turmoil of being a teenager!
Critic Reviews
July 25, 2008
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
July 11, 2008
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
When The Wackness is good, it's good, and when it fails, it's still clear what Levine was trying to do. Someday he'll probably be able to do it. full review
July 11, 2008
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
A generous-spirited study of characters in pain. full review
July 11, 2008
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
For all of Kingsley's hamming, he can't overshadow Peck's mournful performance. Nor can you forget the film's reminder that the cruellest thing you can say to a teenager is that these are the best yea... full review
July 11, 2008
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
What saves this movie, which won this year's audience award at Sundance, from being boring are performances by two actors who see a chance to go over the top and aren't worried about the fall on the o... full review
July 7, 2008
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
The fun is watching Thirlby -- second banana in Juno -- do a tantalizing sex-bomb number, and Kingsley get to flout his knighthood by sticking his tongue down the throat of Mary-Kate Olsen. full review
July 3, 2008
Claudia Puig, USA Today
The Wackness is both darkly funny and life-affirming, in an offbeat and offhanded way. full review
July 3, 2008
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
The Wackness makes a good-faith effort to steer clear of coming-of-age story clichés, and succeeds and fails in roughly equal measure. full review
July 2, 2008
Armond White, The New York Press
Despite its problems, The Wackness employs the emotional extravagance of its hip-hop soundtrack to achieve a triumph of romanticism. full review
July 1, 2008
Marcy Dermansky, About.com
A surprisingly tender coming of age film about a white teenage drug dealer. full review
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