The Wackness
Director: Jonathan Levine
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck, Famke Janssen & Olivia Thirlby
Genre: Drama
Rated: R
Tag line: Sometimes it's right to do the wrong things.
Amazon rating: 4 out of 5 stars
My rating: 5 stars
Plot: It's the summer of 1994 in New York City and Luke Shapiro is a lonely teenager winding down his final summer before college by selling marijuana. He takes advice from his unorthodox therapist, whom he pays with marijuana, while falling in love with Dr. Squires's step-daughter.
Review: It's the sort of thing you never expect to see: A great actor like Ben Kingsley starring besides Josh Peck, of Drake & Josh
fame. Skeptics beware, the movie isn't horrible. It's the complete opposite.
Both actors carry the movie. From beginning to end, you are fully aware that the movie is less about the drugs that they both use, and more about the loneliness of human nature. Both characters are grasping onto the fantasy of love, all the while losing grip on the reality of it. While Luke Shapiro falls head over heels for Stephanie, we see the downfall between Dr. Squires and his wife, Kristin.
Jonathan Levine wrote and directed a film so universal that its affect will stay with you for days to come. He knows exactly where to put a joke in order to lighten the mood, all the while never losing the effect of the emotions that go through us during the first and last time we tell someone we love them.
If there is one anthem of a summer, it is definitely found in The Wackness.
Genre: Drama
Rated: R
Tag line: Sometimes it's right to do the wrong things.
Amazon rating: 4 out of 5 stars
My rating: 5 stars
Plot: It's the summer of 1994 in New York City and Luke Shapiro is a lonely teenager winding down his final summer before college by selling marijuana. He takes advice from his unorthodox therapist, whom he pays with marijuana, while falling in love with Dr. Squires's step-daughter.
Review: It's the sort of thing you never expect to see: A great actor like Ben Kingsley starring besides Josh Peck, of Drake & Josh
fame. Skeptics beware, the movie isn't horrible. It's the complete opposite.Both actors carry the movie. From beginning to end, you are fully aware that the movie is less about the drugs that they both use, and more about the loneliness of human nature. Both characters are grasping onto the fantasy of love, all the while losing grip on the reality of it. While Luke Shapiro falls head over heels for Stephanie, we see the downfall between Dr. Squires and his wife, Kristin.
Jonathan Levine wrote and directed a film so universal that its affect will stay with you for days to come. He knows exactly where to put a joke in order to lighten the mood, all the while never losing the effect of the emotions that go through us during the first and last time we tell someone we love them.
If there is one anthem of a summer, it is definitely found in The Wackness.
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