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IMDb rating 6.9
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Critic Nick De Semlyen
rated 6

...it’s more than a novelty performance — after tosh like BloodRayne and The Love Guru, it’s great to see Kingsley off auto-pilot; he veers expertly between kid-at-a-school-disco exuberance...

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Critic Scott Tobias
rated 4

...the film delights in showing Gandhi sparking a huge bong or making out with Mary-Kate Olsen in a phone booth.

Read full review at The A.V. Club
Critic Oskar Möller
rated 8

Roliga och rörande ”The Wackness” är ett stort steg fram för regissören efter den ojämna rysaren ”All the Boys Love Mandy Lane”.

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Cast & Crew

Jonathan Levine
Director
Ben Kingsley
As Dr. Squires
Method Man
As Percy
Famke Janssen
As Kristin Squires
Jane Adams
As Eleanor
Mary-Kate Olsen
As Union

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The Wackness is a coming-of-age story set in New York City in the summer of 1994. Luke Shapiro, a troubled teenage drug dealer, trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist, Dr. Jeffery Squires. As Luke navigates his relationships with Squires and his stepdaughter Steph, he must confront his own depression and the harsh realities of growing up. With a killer soundtrack and a cast of quirky characters, The Wackness is a heartfelt and hilarious ride through the ups and downs of adolescence.

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What movies are similar to The Wackness? Toggle content

Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as The Wackness include The Help, The Blind Side, Something the Lord Made, The Ron Clark Story, The Social Network, There Will Be Blood.

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The Wackness was released in theaters on July 3, 2008.