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Ken Park

2003 · 97 min

It is a raw and unflinching descent into the fractured psyche of disaffected youth.

Directed by: Edward Lachman, Larry Clark
Genres: Drama, Thriller
Starring: James Ransone, Tiffany Limos, Stephen Jasso

Overview: 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.

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Directed by: Edward Lachman, Larry Clark
Genres: Drama, Thriller
Starring: James Ransone, Tiffany Limos, Stephen Jasso

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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
cynicalstrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: death
trauma
violence
sexuality
family
Places: suburbs
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: ensemble
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language strong
Violence strong
Sex strong

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Romance	3
Tension	9
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Genres: drama, thriller
Directed by: Edward Lachman, Larry Clark
Written by: Harmony Korine
Starring: James Ransone, Tiffany Limos, Stephen Jasso, James Bullard, Mike Apaletegui, Adam Chubbuck, Amanda Plummer, Wade Williams
Cinematography: Edward Lachman, Larry Clark
Runtime: 97 min
Country: United States of America, France, Netherlands
Languages: English

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