THE HIGHEST PER SCREEN AVERAGE OF THE JULY 4TH WEEKEND ($23k+ per screen) LOS ANGELES, July 7
LOS ANGELES, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --
Winner - 2008 Sundance Audience Award
Winner - 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival Audience Award
Currently in theaters in New York and Los Angeles, expanding to select
markets July 11th and July 18, nationally on August 1
Starring Sir Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck (TV's Drake & Josh), Olivia Thirlby
(Juno, Snow Angels), Famke Janssen, Mary-Kate Olsen, Jane Adams & rapper/actor
Method Man
Written and directed by Jonathan Levine
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. The newly-inaugurated
mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, is only beginning to implement his anti-fun
initiatives against "crimes" like noisy portable radio, graffiti and public
drunkenness.
Two people, however, are missing out on the excitement. Luke (Josh Peck)
is a socially uncomfortable teenage pot dealer with no friends, issues with
his parents, and a whopping lack of confidence with girls. He trades weed for
sessions with his therapist, Dr. Squires (Sir Ben Kingsley), whose
much-younger wife (Famke Janssen) is slipping away from him. Squires, a
drug-addled shrink with a hairline retreating to the back of his neck and a
state of mind slouching back to adolescence, is an unlikely role model -- but
the two of them forge a friendship based on a mutual need: neither one is
getting laid.
The intergenerational duo set off on a crawl that takes them all over New
York, where they encounter several of Luke's "business associates," including
a Phish-following dreadlocked pixie (Mary-Kate Olsen), a New Wave,
keyboard-playing one-hit-wonder (Jane Adams), and Luke's supplier (Method
Man). Luke has long had an aching crush on Dr. Squires' way-out-of-his-league
stepdaughter, Stephanie (Olivia Thirlby from "Juno"), and is stunned at his
good luck when she returns his affections. Luke's innocent first love
experience with Stephanie becomes a life lesson that sets him on the pathway
towards adulthood. And when Squires breaks down, it is up to the younger man
to throw the older one a lifeline.
Propelled by an exuberant hip hop score, "The Wackness" captures the spell
of 1994 -- a time of pagers, not cell phones; a time when Tupac and Biggie
were alive but Kurt Cobain had just died. Funny and moving, "The Wackness" is
an offbeat tale of two lost souls stumbling towards maturity.
http://www.thewackness.com
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