The Wackness
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- Synopsis
- A psychiatrist (Ben Kingsley) is put into a moral quandary when a young drug dealer who's been supplying him with pot in exchange for clinical treatment ends up dating his daughter in this comedy from All the Boys Love Mandy Lane's writer/director ......
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- Starring
- Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck, Famke Janssen, Olivia Thirlby, Mary-Kate Olsen
- Director(s)
- Jonathan Levine
- Distributor(s)
- Sony Classics
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 95 min.
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Critic Reviews
A tightly packed entertainment. It explodes through familiar teen-transition territory with dark ironies, but, all the while, touches are sentiments.Read the full review
What saves this movie, which won this year's audience award at Sundance, from being boring are performances by two actors who see a chance to go over the top and aren't worried about the fall on the other side.Read the full review
Both darkly funny and life-affirming, in an offbeat and offhanded way.Read the full review
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