Ken Park Summary
Director: Edward Lachman, Larry Clark
Genres: Drama
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Filmmaker Larry_Clark reunites with Kids screenwriter Harmony_Korine, with some additional directorial assistance from cinematographer Ed_Lachman, for this look at a group of troubled teens and their guardians living in Southern California. The film opens at a skate park, where a troubled character takes his own life; it then proceeds to chronicle the somewhat-interrelated lives of his classmates. The audience is introduced to Tate (James_Ransome), a young man living in relative misery with his board-game-playing grandparents. Also tormented by his living situation is Claude (Stephen_Jasso), a quiet, shy teen constantly henpecked by his brutish father (Wade_Andrew_Williams). Meanwhile, the vapid Shawn (James_Bullard) occasionally trades verbal spars with his mother, in between leaving the house for sex sessions with his girlfriend's mom. Finally there is Peaches (Tiffany_Limos), living alone with her devoutly religious father as she covertly experiments with her boyfriend (Mike_Apaletegui). Though Ken Park played at such festivals as Toronto and Telluride in the fall of 2002, it would languish on the shelf for months and months afterward, as its explicit content made finding a U.S. distributor near-impossible. Michael Hastings, Rovi
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