The Wackness, 2008

I quite enjoyed this film. Granted, this ground has been covered in other "indie" films but the great performances by Kingsley and Peck really make it more than just nostalgic look back at the lost early 90's. Yes, its about friendship and first love, heartbreak and the usually trite "coming of age stuff" but it's also about the subtle change that life seems to foist upon you while you're not paying attention. This movie, like Kelly Reichard's "Old Joy" is made for men in their 30's who haven't yet reached the desperation of middle age, embodied by Kingsley in the best of tragi-comic performances, but are long past the unfufilled hope and fear of adolescent youth, as portrayed with a very vulnerable jaggedness by Peck. It's about finding that sweet spot in between the two and trying to have the best of both world's when it really just isn't in the cards.

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"The Wackness" is a coming of age dramedy in which two lost souls meet up and become friends through their common bond of weed. Ben Kingsley plays a very convincing drug addict. His role was phenomenal as was Josh Peck's role. I thoroughly enjoyed both of their performances. The movie left me feeling reminiscent of the mid-nineties.

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I didn't find anything about this charming, quirky, or funny. The story is interesting, but it could have been told much quicker. The actors do a good job with Kingsley's performance being exceptional - unfortunately they weren't enough to make this depressing film worth watching.

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