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.
- Harm to children
- Suicide or self-harm
- Bleak ending
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Contemporary, grave, prestige and bleak.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
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Cast
- James RansoneTate
- Tiffany LimosPeaches
- Stephen JassoClaude
- James BullardShawn
- Mike ApaleteguiCurtis
- Adam ChubbuckKen Park
- Amanda PlummerClaude's Mother
- Wade WilliamsClaude's Father
- Maeve QuinlanRhonda
- Richard RiehleMurph
Crew
- Larry ClarkDirector
- Edward LachmanDirector
- Harmony KorineScreenplay
- Edward LachmanDirector of Photography
- Larry ClarkDirector of Photography
- Andrew HafitzEditor
- Kees KasanderProducer
- Jean-Louis PielProducer
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