Ken Park

Ken Park is a controversial 2002 film with a screenplay adapted by Harmony Korine from stories by Larry Clark, and directed by Larry Clark and Edward Lachman.

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The film revolves around the abusive home lives of several teenage skateboarders, and is a story of violence, alienation and teenage sexual experimentation, set in the rural town of Visalia, California.

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The film stars:

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• James Ransone as Tate, who is brimming with psychotic rage.
• James Bullard as Shawn, who seems to be the most conventional.
• Tiffany Limos as Peaches, who looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom.
• Stephen Jasso as Claude, who is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother.

The film contains graphic scenes of explicit sexual behavior, and portrays suicide, murder, parental violence, alcoholism, smoking cannabis (drug), incestuous sexual assault by a homophobic father of his sleeping son, BDSM, autoerotic asphyxiation, religious fanaticism, a fake marriage of a father with his daughter, a boy having sex with his girlfriend's mother, and at the end an idyllic sex scene with two of the boys and the girl.

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During an interview, Clark commented, "I decided that I wasn't going to turn the camera away, or shut the door, or shoot from the waist up."

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Ken Park: Worldwide controversy ►



 

2002: 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. It was designated the:...

Harmony Korine: Harmony Korine (born January 4, 1973) is a US film director and writer. He first appeared in the public's eye as the author of film director Larry Clark's debut, Kids, a tale of irresponsible teenagers in New York which garnered rave reviews but was literally unable to be seen by the intended audien...

Larry Clark: Larry Clark (born in 1943) is a US movie director and photographer. He got his start taking pictures and works mostly with black and white images. After receiving his High School Diploma, Larry Clark spent two years in Vietnam. Some of his more common subjects include youth, especially on the fringe...




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