Strong cast makes ‘The Wackness’ work

REVIEW
By Alonso Duralde
Film critic
updated 11:28 a.m. PT, Tues., July. 1, 2008


Alonso Duralde
Film critic
In “The Opposite of Sex,” Christina Ricci’s character disparagingly refers to the “and nothing was the same again after that summer” genre of movies. And while “The Wackness” technically fits into that category — and also into the category of “Sundance movies about quirky dysfunctional white people” — the strong performances lift it out of the world of cliché and turn it into one of the year’s more pleasant surprises.

The summer in question is 1994 — New York City’s local color is being threatened by Rudy Giuliani’s draconian policies, kids are listening to A Tribe Called Quest and Notorious B.I.G., and Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) has just graduated from high school. While he acts as a dope connection for most of his classmates, he’s never felt close to any of them; when he makes a pot run to one fellow student’s house, he’s surprised to find a raging graduation party to which he hadn’t been invited. msnbc.com. Click link to view or read entire story.

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