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Ken Park

2003 · 1h 37m · Drama

IMDb 5.8 RT 50%

Skip it. Ken Park is a grim, exploitation-heavy slog that aims for provocative social commentary but mostly just wallows in dysfunction and abuse without earning its darkness. With scores in the basement and no cult reputation to justify a viewing, there are way better ways to spend your evening.

Plot

Teen skater Ken Park (nicknamed Krap Nek; his name spelled and pronounced backward) kills himself at a Visalia skate park; his death bookends the lives of four other young people who knew him: Shawn, the most conventional; Tate brims with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother; and Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim.

Director: Larry Clark

Cast: James Ransone, Tiffany Limos, Stephen Jasso, James Bullard, Mike Apaletegui

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