Ken Park
Seen it?2003 | 97 min | Drama, Thriller
Weeknight WatchWhy it’s a Weeknight Watch
It's still drawing plenty of interest, but a box office loss and middling reviews (46% on Rotten Tomatoes) held it back. Fine if it's on; don't plan your night around it.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Made for anyone who likes to be kept guessing. If you loved Menace II Society, start here.
- The mood
- Tense.
- The pace
- Takes its time with its characters, at 1 hr 37 min.
- What might put you off
- Nothing much for most grown-ups.
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.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsBelow par
46% on Rotten Tomatoes
- AudiencesBelow par
6.0 out of 10
- AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
- Box office & staying powerWeak
$448K worldwide on a $1 million budget
- Buzz & cultural impactStrong
About 228K people sought it out in the past year
Trailer
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Cast & crew
Directed by Larry Clark, Edward Lachman
- 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