

Ken Park
2003-01-30 · 97 min · ★ 6.0
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.
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Production details
- Directors
- Larry Clark, Edward Lachman
- Production companies
- Cinéa, Kasander Film Company, Ken Park, Inc.
- Countries
- United States of America, France, Netherlands
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- USD 1,300,000
- Revenue
- USD 447,741
Top Cast
James RansoneTate
Tiffany LimosPeaches
Stephen JassoClaude
James BullardShawn
Adam ChubbuckKen Park
Amanda PlummerClaude's Mother
Wade WilliamsClaude's Father
Maeve QuinlanRhonda
Richard RiehleMurph
Bill FagerbakkeBob
Julio Oscar MechosoPeaches' Father
Patricia PlaceTate's Grandmother
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