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Trailer for The Wackness Debuts With Much Dopeness
Posted by Blake at 9:46pm.
Posted in Trailer Alerts .
Summer-Summ-eeeerr TIMEEEEE! Ohhhhhh Summertime! It seems strange that we are now at the point where a movie set in the 90’s is considered in small part a period piece, but such is the case with The Wackness, Jonathan Levine’s follow up film to All the Boys Love Mandy Lane. The setting is New York City during the summer of 1994 with all the hip hop and rap that filled the airwaves as we follow Luke Shapiro come to grips with love and finding acceptance in an often over complicated world, while selling pot and watching his therapist Ben Kingsley make out with Mary-Kate Olsen. While the similar boy meets girl ensue and we get take through a wonderful nostalgic world of the 90’s, Levine pumps in some of the most brimming with life cinema you will see in movie theaters this year. Also note with this film the absolute break out performance by Olivia Thirlby, whom you may know as Ellen Page’s best friend in Juno. According to actor Paul Dano she is apparently along with him a part of a vibrant theater acting scene in New York. It’s amazing to think in New York now we have young actors so passionate about acting they rush to work in the theater in any down time away from making films, but such is the case with Olivia and Paul, and their performances in films as such shine leaps and bounds even more than normal. I originally saw The Wackness as part of the European Film Market in Berlin, where despite not a single seat being available I stood on the wall and was transfixed during its entire running time. Anders Morgenthaler’s Echo and Levine’s The Wackness so far are my two favorite movies of 2008 hands down.
Don’t take my word for it, go to MTV and watch the trailer and comment below on your favorite times and songs of the early 90’s.
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eDWeiRD 04/16/2008 @ 3:42am
Favorite albums out by 1994:
Zeni Geva- Desire for Agony
Slint-Spiderland
The Jesus Lizard-Goat
Barkmarket-Gimmick and Vegas Throat
Fugazi-Repeater and 13 songs
This is really just scratching the surface, though.
Blake 04/16/2008 @ 9:40am
Nice choices. I was trying to remember everything I was listening to that year other than still listening to Pretty Hate Machine. So much amazing music coming out around this time.