The Wackness

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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 doctors daughter. This is a coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, music and what it takes to be a man.

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Released:	Jan 18th, 2008
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The Wackness Main Cast

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Ben Kingsley
plays Dr. Jeffrey Squires

Josh Peck
plays Luke Shapiro

Famke Beumer Janssen
plays Kristin Squires

Olivia Thirlby
plays Stephanie

Mary-Kate Olsen
plays Union

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Movie Goof (anachronisms): Curlz, the font used on Stephanie's yearbook page, was not released until 1995.
Movie Goof (anachronisms): During the scene where Luke and Dr. Squires are walking near Times Square, an advertisement for a Pontiac Solstice can clearly be seen in the background. The production year for this car began after 2005.
Movie Goof (anachronisms): As Squires laments on the new New York he quotes Starbucks as an example of the city's Disneyfication. But 1994 was Starbucks' New York debut and they were not yet synonymous with unchecked corporate growth.
The first song in the movie that Luke is listening to on his headphones is "The World Is Yours" which features the lyric: "I sip the Dom P, watchin' Gandhi 'til I'm charged." Ben Kingsley won an Oscar for portraying Gandhi in 1982.

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