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It received positive reviews from critics, but was a box-office bomb, grossing $3.3 million worldwide against a $6 million budget. Levine was nominated for Best First Screenplay at the 24th Independent Spirit Awards. Plot.
Jul 3, 2008 · The movie he is in, “The Wackness,” written and directed by Jonathan Levine, makes a good-faith effort to steer clear of such clichés, and succeeds and fails in roughly equal measure.
- Jonathan Levine
The Wackness: Directed by Jonathan Levine. With Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck, Famke Janssen, Olivia Thirlby. It's the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip-hop.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Jonathan Levine
- 2008-08-01
Jul 3, 2008 · Set in New York City in the sweltering summer, The Wackness tells the story of a troubled teenage drug dealer, who trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist. Things get more complicated when he falls for one of his classmates, who just happens to be the doctor's daughter.
Jun 29, 2008 · Because Occupant had budgeted only $1.5 million for the film, it wasn’t exactly looking at A-list directors, Felipe Marino, one of Occupant’s founders, explained recently; most were people...
Jul 10, 2008 · “The Wackness,” which is set in 1994, contains so many drugs, it could have been made in the 1970s, along with “Panic in Needle Park” and other landmarks of the psychotropic generation. The big difference is that drugs have progressed since then from cutting-edge material to background music.
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The Wackness. It's summer in New York City, the year is 1994, and teenage marijuana dealer Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) is trading dime bags for sessions with his therapist, Dr. Squires (Ben...
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