Ken Park
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Ken Park

6.0 / 10 2003 1h 37mNR English
Drama

Storyline

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.

Cast & Crew

James Ransone

James Ransone

Tate

Lead
Tiffany Limos

Tiffany Limos

Peaches

Stephen Jasso

Stephen Jasso

Claude

James Bullard

James Bullard

Shawn

MA

Mike Apaletegui

Curtis

Adam Chubbuck

Adam Chubbuck

Ken Park

Amanda Plummer

Amanda Plummer

Claude's Mother

Wade Williams

Wade Williams

Claude's Father

What People Are Saying

3.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Larry Clark's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
3.0
Every frame feels alive. Ken Park is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker