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A Balasaur Score of 56 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 5.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes 50%. Most of the 3,126 2000s drama movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb5.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes50%
706 audience votes
Key crew
- Harmony KorineScreenplay
- Larry ClarkDirector
- Edward LachmanDirector
Cast
- James RansoneTate
- Tiffany LimosPeaches
- Stephen JassoClaude
- James BullardShawn
- Mike ApaleteguiCurtis
- Adam ChubbuckKen Park
- Amanda PlummerClaude's Mother
- Wade WilliamsClaude's Father
- Maeve QuinlanRhonda
- Richard RiehleMurph
- Bill FagerbakkeBob
- Julio Oscar MechosoPeaches' Father
Stills
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Themes
infidelitycaliforniahomepregnancyabusive fatherharassmentfatherreligionsuburbdrugsalcoholicunderage sex