Adam Chubbuck, Amanda Plummer, Bill Fagerbakke

Several Californian skateboarder's life and relationships with and without their parents.

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Unrated, 92 min.

Directed by: Edward Lachman, Larry Clark

Release Date: August 31, 2002

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  • April 13, 2009
    its a very hard and raw film to either like or hate.But if u seen larry clarks other film then u know what ur getting here.
    Very graphic sex sence and brutal moments of rage are on the cards here so not for the wreak stomach.Cant say i recommened it because of the subject matter...( read more) it holds and its will not be to everyone taste.But if u seen Kids or Bully then you kinder no what your in for..
  • May 17, 2008
    Sick ass film to the extreme. I am not kidding. This is a another hard film to get a hold of, but if you can try to find it. This is another Larry Clark film, the director of "Kids", and it's also his most deranged film yet. Vile and depressing. I feel guilty even owning this mov...( read more)ie(you can find a few of copies of this online), but I bought mine at a horror convention. I don't even know if I should really recommend this one, but for those of you who can stomach it, go and see this now! No matter how sick it is this is still a very good movie. A very realistic and very honest film. The only reason why I didn't give this a higher rating is because this movie makes me feel too depressed and it ruins my day whenever I watch it.

    "Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother. Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim. But they spend precious little time together and none of them seems to know much about one another's family lives. This bizarre dichotomy underscores their alienation # the result of suburban ennui, a teenager's inherent sense of melodrama, and the disturbing nature of their home environments."


    OTHER REVIEWS:

    "Explicit sex (and I mean explicit, like triple-X explicit), masturbation, and near-incest are all on the menu."
    - eFilmCritic.com

    "...[Larry Clark's] most audacious film to date."
    - Monsters At Play

    "...scenes of graphic onanism, oral gratification, and ritualistic violence."
    - All Movie Guide

    "Thoroughly vile!"
    - reelingreviews.com

    "Makes "Happiness" look like Dumbo."
    - Film Freak Central

    "...leaves the viewer stunned - stuck between laughter and disgust, horror and compassion, not knowing what we should feel or what we are."
    - Plume-Noire

    "Everything is graphic. Very graphic. Perhaps, at times, too graphic."
    - movie-views.com

    "...this is well beyond what we're used to seeing within the realms of conventional cinema."
    - DVDTimes

    "...Clark has made a maniacal, demented, sexual, violent film that might cause a few hundred catholic riots..."
    - Ain't It Cool News


    lol...Good stuff! See this movie and judge for yourself. Let me know what you think.

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  • May 2, 2007
    Extreme. Powerful. Raw. Larry Clark. Hate it or loath it. Trash it or burn it in hell. This one is art. A masterpiece of nowadays horror and life. It portrays life as it is: sad. Horrible. It hurts and it kills. But it's life, and you've gotta love it. Or leave it (like Ken Park)...
  • January 26, 2009
    "Ken Park" is a sad story of teenagers and their dysfunctional families. Most of the characters have sick and abnormal behaviors. All are fully developed and living and breathing up on the screen.
  • January 24, 2009
    K, so I heard this was supposedly disturbing which is why I acquired it. Oddly enough, I decided to watch it today, while still in the middle of my Prison Break spree (mid of season 3 woot) and so was surprised that Bellick was in it, but now I have images of Bellick peeing and I...( read more)'ll never be able to watch Prison Break the same again LOL.

    Anyway, I didn't find it disturbing at all. I generally don't like any sex or nudity in movies because it's stupid, but this film was pretty much all about sex and nudity. Although it was plotless and like I said, was just full of sex and nudity, somehow I didn't mind it. Um... so yeah, I don't really have much else to say about it, other than don't watch it if you get scared by naked people.
  • September 20, 2009
    Erotica y obsena casi insitante veanla bajo su propio riesgo
  • September 7, 2009
    All-inclusive blending of teenage stories. There are enough taboos and controversial hardcore violent and sex scenes that it's bound to disturb you one way or another. This formula worked on me - one portion shook me up mentally. Kids was for the '90s, this is updated and pretty ...( read more)accurate for the 2000s in terms of what adult lives teenagers are occupying. More explicit than it would have you believe - it hasn't found a distributor in the US yet.
  • August 12, 2009
    Depressing and very disturbing. But reminds me of Tennessee Willaims, IN THE EXTREME!!
  • August 10, 2009
    OK, what exactly is so good about this film? I know I'm not a fan of Larry Clark's work (Kids, sucked. Bully, awful. Teenage Caveman, ugh. Eh, I kinda liked Another Day In Paradise.) but this film tops the list of bad Larry Clark films. I'm convinced that Clark's main goal in lif...( read more)e is to watch underage kids have sex.. and make us watch it as well. The acting is awful, I mean the ACTUAL acting. The two guys training the Indian chick looked real enough to know that it isn't acting. I can tolerate many things in movies. Gore, Guts, Sex, Rape, Cannibalism, Vin Diesel, Abortion.. the list goes on and on. The one thing I can't tolerate is kiddy porn.
  • July 19, 2009
    Once again I find myself taking the role of the hidden voyeur in one of Larry Clarks voyeuristic films, but this certainly doesn't lower the revealingness of his depictions.

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  • maruschk
    July 13, 2008
    response to juzo85

    I didn't know they censor in Australia.
  • sajjraza
    July 29, 2007
    it seems hot
  • juzo85
    March 31, 2007
    I Have been wanting to see this movie for a while, unfortunatly it is Banned in Australia so i'm pretty screwed in that respect :( Please help me am i missing anything good?

    Cheers

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