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I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

The Wackness takes place in the most hip-hop relevant environment for its time. I liked how they managed not only to create an amazing soundtrack consisting of some true hip-hop classics, but also to show how hip-hop is more than just the music. Also, the fact that they got Method man on board made the movie even more hip-hop authentic. All in all, a great cast, good acting, neat period of time, thought-provoking philosophic quotes from Dr. Squires and most important of all a great soundtrack. I really don't get how this movie hasn't got better reviews.

I first saw this a few years ago and didn't like it that much, but I watched it again and I am a much bigger fan. Olivia Thirlby is amazing, and while she and Josh Peck didn't have much chemistry that was the point. First loves have a way of making even the smart man naive. Ben Kingsley was creepy as ish, but he made an excellent psychiatrist.It was refreshing to see a movie that didn't have a happy ending, though I do wish that Shapiro would have moved out for college. I liked the interactions between him and his 'customers' and I just love thinking about Eleanor and Squires together. I'd definitely recommend this to anyone who wants to see a good movie about a broken heart.

This film is very underrated and is a personal favourite of mine. This Movie perfectly portrays the 90s with a cool soundtrack and nostalgic dialogue. The film has a plethora of characters each unique and quirky in their own way. Josh peck delivers a great performance as an awkward drug dealing teen completely shrugging of his drake and Josh persona and showing us how talented he is with his pure likability and emotional anger, this is even better than his performance in the underrated "Mean Creek". What's even better is the chemistry he has with Ben Kingsley who delivers one of his best performances to date as a older man trying to live young and wild again, both characters are flawed and emotionally engaging.I also liked the anti-romance between Peck and Kingsely's daughter it was real and original. This film is both funny, touching and entertaining, its subtly dark and occasionally uplifting. Its a fresh take on the coming of age tale and deals with Growing up no matter how old you are. WATCH IT

Coming-of-age stories come in all forms, though one would expect a New York City drug dealer at the height of hip-hop in the mid '90s to have already experienced a loss of innocence. For Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck), however, dealing pot is just a summer job, and for all his street cred, he's a lonely dude unexperienced in the ways of love.Jonathan Levine's "The Wackness" tells that typical story of a last summer before college, but clichés don't run wild thanks to a re-calibrated the moral compass. Something's off with each of his three main characters; they're not the most likable or at the least morally sound, which provides a challenge for the actors in terms of generating sympathy.Sir Ben Kingsley seems to really enjoy that challenge. He plays Dr. Squires, Luke's shrink whom Luke pays in pot. Unconventional doesn't quite describe Squires; everything about Kingsley's performance feels unpredictable and spontaneous, but deeply rooted in a mid-life crisis. He projects a desire to be in Luke's place in the way he offers advice, which sometimes is misguided and sometimes spot-on. Both, however, share loneliness at different stages in life and therefore become friends.As much as Dr. Squires urges Luke to sow his oats, however, he also wants Luke to stay away from his step daughter Stephanie (Olivia Thirlby) for unclear but certainly hypocritical reasons. A popular girl with inattentive parents, Stephanie's well-versed in many things, including boys, but she takes interest in Luke's charms. Their relationship doesn't necessarily feel right in the fairy tale sense, but it does feel true-to-life because more often than not, there's a discrepancy in the amount of life experience two people have, especially at 18.This dictates the essence of Levine's message, though one wrapped in a complicated shell built of excessive drug use and morally misguided activities. For Levine, coming of age is about accumulating experience, both positive and negative, the "dopeness" and the "wackness" as Stephanie tells Luke. The challenge is finding the right perspective, not unlike the perspective with which we need to view some of the characters and their questionable activities in order to appreciate the film.~Steven CVisit my site at http://moviemusereviews.com