The Wackness: Red Band Trailer (video)

Links (4)

The Wackness Red Band Movie Trailer
Published 6/19/2008 by slashfilm.com at /Film
The Wackness is one of those movies which is almost impossible to market in a PG world. It’s about a teenager drug dealer’s last summer before he heads off to college. And while that’s the one sentence breakdown, I’m sure you can already tell, it’s much more than that. I’ve given this movie rave after rave, and have seen it four times on the festival circuit. So there is no point in telling you it’s one of my favorite films of the year. Until today, the teaser trailers have been rather weak. Every time something new has been released, I’ve found myself defending the movie ...

The Wackness Gets a Red Band
Published 6/19/2008 by James Cook at TheMovingPicture.net
The Wackness Gets a Red Band It seems the trailers for the Sundance hit The Wackness keep getting better and better, and this new red band is no exception. The film centers on a troubled high school student named Luke Shapiro - a marijuana dealer who forms a friendship with Dr. Jeffrey Squires, a psychiatrist and kindred lost soul. When the doctor proposes Luke trade him marijuana for therapy sessions, the two begin to explore both New York City and their own depression. The Jonathan Levine directed film stars Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley, Olivia Thirlby, Mary-Kate Olsen and Famke Janssen. It opens July 3 .

The Wackness red band trailer
Published 6/19/2008 at Filmstalker
TheWackness.jpg You can now take a look at a red band trailer for The Wackness. The independent film stars Josh Peck and Ben Kingsley. Peck plays a soon to be college student, who spends his last summer before enrolling dealing drugs. The trailer looks really good, a nice mixture of humour and drama. Plus it's set in the summer of 1994, meaning the hip hop soundtrack should be good. Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince anyone? The red band trailer for The Wackness ...

“The Wackness” Red Band Trailer with Josh Peck and Ben Kingsley
Published 6/25/2008 by Jason at Pop Critics
The Wackness made headlines a few months ago not for having some sort of profound script or stellar director or anything, but because of a scene where a really starting to get old Ben Kingsley makes out with one of the baby girls from Full House (Mary Kate Olsen in this case).  A little creepy. I didn’t really think much about the film until I saw the trailer.  The creepy make-out scene isn’t in the preview, and, in fact, Olsen is barely seen so I’m not sure what role she plays in the story line.  I found the trailer compelling, though.  I think it ...