The Wackness made headlines a few months ago not for having some sort of profound script or stellar director or anything, but because of a scene where a really-starting-to-get-old Ben Kingsley makes out with one of the baby girls from Full House (Mary Kate Olsen in this case). A little creepy.
I didn’t really think much about the film until I saw the trailer. The creepy make-out scene isn’t in the preview, and, in fact, Olsen is barely seen so I’m not sure what role she plays in the story line. I found the trailer compelling, though. I think it could be partly due to the music that’s playing in the background. I was just out of high school in ‘94 so I guess I was around the same age as the protagonist. From what I saw in the trailer, however, we didn’t share many of the same problems.
Still, the trailer looks funny and I always enjoy watching Ben Kingsley. I don’t know much about Josh Peck other than the fact that he’s the star of Nickelodeon’s “Drake and Josh” and it looks like he’s lost a lot of weight.
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 beginning to implement his anti-fun initiatives against “crimes” like noisy portable radios, graffiti and public drunkenness. Set against this backdrop, Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) spends his last summer before college selling dope throughout New York City, trading it with his shrink (Ben Kingsley) for therapy, while crushing on his step-daughter (Olivia Thirlby). Famke Janssen, Mary Kate Olsen, and Method Man round out the cast in this edgy, bittersweet, and funny coming of age story.
The Wackness hits theaters on July 3rd 2008.
Speechless – I don't even know where to begin…
In what way?
I'm feeling a little heavy-handed today – so I don't want to go off all “sermon” like. I'll just leave it at speechless.
“I don’t know much about Josh Peck other than the fact that he’s the star of Nickelodeon’s 'Drake and Josh'”… Really, Jason? That's more than most of us!
Yeah, it is a drug movie, but it looks interesting.
But I feel like I've seen this type of movie a few times now.
Well, I had to pull him up on the IMDB to find out who he was then search the internet for pictures of him, join a few fan clubs, send off for an autographed picture, go to the barber to get my haircut like his, pre-order the full Drake and Josh series on DVD, and mark all the places he's scheduled to visit in the next six months on my map…you know, for the article. It's the least I could do.
You're laughing, but what you don't know is…he's not lying…