Ken Park
Ken Park

Ken Park

January. 30,2003 | 1h 37m | NR | en
Watch similar movies
Apple TV
Watch similar movies on Apple TV for free
Watch Free for 30 Days

Stream thousands of hit movies and TV shows

Start 30-day Free Trial

Ken Park Trailers

View All

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.

Reviews

SoftInloveRox Horrible, fascist and poorly acted
Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined
Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.
Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
postalinvt I want my 93 minutes back!! This movie (not withstanding Maeve Quinlans PERFECT breasts ) is absolutely BORING. Musical score and numbers terrible, Screenplay obviously written by a sixth grader, and acting that will leave you wishing for an elementary school production. What was Larry Clark thinking? Oh, wait; obviously he wasn't thinking.
Niklas Pivic Due to all the controversy that surrounded this film - where I live, in Sweden, posters that advertised the film were actually removed from subway carts as one could see a boy going down on a woman - I have somehow let that silliness seep into my mind; while watching this quite beautiful, mobile still life, I wondered exactly what it was, that made people go insane from this film.I mean, the sexuality is just part of human life, right? The start of the film - no spoilers here - was much more disturbing.Having written that, I really liked this film. It's written by Harmony Korine, which does give some details away. Young persons are on display, seemingly directed by dictator parents, possible exception being Tate, a person who yells at his grandmother and isn't the most sociable character.Interesting throughout, it's a bite of life and a good watch.
Armand a town.few families. teenagers. large slices of sex. mixture between pornography and a kind of cry. or, only, a Rubick cube. it is, in same time, disgusting and cruel.bitter and chaotic. no moral, no message. at first sigh. young bodies and ambiguous story. but it is only a poor picture. because it is only a picture of society. frustrations, fear, lost of life sense, schizoid universe, darkness of soul and fake refugees, result - a honest film. too honest because it may be ironic drawing of every day facts, warning or only cold mirror. a difficult film for its bitter skin. because eroticism, at all levels, with each nuances is only a form to sensibles. or a trap. only the viewer has right answer. for himself.
catherinedownes1988 This film bored me to death. In a word, it's crap. It's a film that tries to be controversial by delving into the lives of a few teenagers. I'd love to know how many average looking boys really get to have sex with their girlfriend's hot mum. Unconvincing to say the least. I found the film very slow to get into, and was a bit confused at the start as to where the film was leading. I suppose the only character in the film worth watching was Tate, the others bored me (sorry for the repetition). Larry Clar has obviously tried to use a number of ways to 'shock' his audience but I would say he's ultimately failed. The slow deliverance and stereotypical teenage sex, drugs and rock and roll life style made me want to fall asleep.