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8 January 2009 9:06 AM, PST | From HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news

Chicago – The coming-of-age comedy “The Wackness” with Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley, Olivia Thirlby, Mary-Kate Olsen, Method Man, and Famke Janssen may feature a bouncing hip-hop soundtrack and be about joyful things like first love, but it’s an oddly inert, haze-filled film, as if the regular marijuana usage in the film cast a haze over the entire project.

Only the always-interesting Kingsley and the delightful Thirlby, who’s been great in everything from “Juno” to “Snow Angels,” give the film any life at all and the great treatment of the film by Sony Pictures Home Video significantly helps the final product.

The Wackness is released by Sony Pictures Home Video on January 6th, 2009.

Photo credit: Sony Pictures Home Video

In 1994 New York City, Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) deals weed to all kinds of clients, including his therapist, the very immature Dr. Squires (Ben Kingsley). Luke’s dealing drugs to try

adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

5 January 2009 11:44 AM, PST | From www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news

Rules: You’re eligible to win if 1) You have not won anything from me in 2009; 2) You have a U.S. mailing address; 3) You enter once and only once. The Wackness -- Jonathan Levine’s nostalgic coming-of-age comedy set in early-1990s New York City -- will be released on DVD on January 6, and I’ve got a copy of the DVD plus a Wackness book give away, courtesy of Sony Pictures. Enter by using this link to send your name and U.S. mailing address. Enter By: 11:59pm Eastern time, Monday, January 19. Winners are chosen at random from all eligible entries received. Note: Your email address and mailing address will be used Only for contest purposes. You will not be added to any mailing lists; you will not be spammed as a result of entering. All contest entries are discarded at the end of the contest period.

MaryAnn Johanson

2 articles from 2009