Movie
Ken Park
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2003-01-30
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Cinéa, Kasander Film Company, Ken Park, Inc.
- Country
- United States of America, France, Netherlands
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- James Ransone as Tate
- Tiffany Limos as Peaches
- Stephen Jasso as Claude
- James Bullard as Shawn
- Mike Apaletegui as Curtis
- Adam Chubbuck as Ken Park
- Amanda Plummer as Claude's Mother
- Wade Williams as Claude's Father
- Maeve Quinlan as Rhonda
- Richard Riehle as Murph
- Bill Fagerbakke as Bob
- Julio Oscar Mechoso as Peaches' Father
Crew
- Larry Clark - Director
- Edward Lachman - Director
- Harmony Korine - Screenplay
- Larry Clark - Characters
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