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Wassup Rockers, 2005

Starring: Yunior Usualdo Panameno, Carlos Ramirez, Jonathan Velasquez, Milton Velasquez

Directed by: Larry Clark

Written by: Larry Clark

Language: Spanish, English

Country: USA

Runtime: 111 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:5.8

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The mood of Wassup Rockers is gloomy and sincere. The plot centers around teenage life, friends, and youth. It is a drama movie. In approach, Wassup Rockers is serious and realistic. The setting is Los Angeles. It happens in contemporary times. The musical score of Wassup Rockers is punk and rock. Note that it includes drugs/alcohol and profanity.

Summary of Wassup Rockers

In 1995, photographer Larry Clark burst onto the indie scene with the controversial KIDS, a tough, realistic look at a group of teenagers hanging around the seamier side of New York City, getting involved in sex and drugs amid the AIDS crisis. A decade later, Clark (BULLY, KEN PARK) went across the country to make WASSUP ROCKERS, about a group of Latino teenagers experimenting with sex, playing and listening to punk rock, dressing in their own style, and looking for the perfect place to skateboard. The seven teens, led by Jonathan (Jonathan Velasquez), take two buses to get to Beverly Hills High, where they start boarding down difficult steps. They are excited when two white students, Jade (Laura Cellner) and Nikki (Jessica Steinbaum), invite them to their house, but they are soon on the run after being harassed by a racist cop (Chris Neville). They make it to the huge house, but they have to take off again when Jade and Nikki's rich white male friends catch them there, sending them off on a perilous journey through ritzy Beverly Hills as they try to get back to South Central--what one of them proudly calls the Ghetto. No matter how hard the kids try, they are unable to avoid violence; it is too entrenched in their dangerous world. In this gritty urban drama of class conflict, racism, and boys just trying to be boys, Clark displays how deep the ills of society still go, all set to a raging punk soundtrack featuring songs by such bands as South Central Riot Squad, the Remains, Moral Decay, and the Retaliators.

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Language:	Spanish, English
Country:	USA
Release date:	January 2006
Runtime:	111 min

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Yunior Usualdo Panameno

Carlos Ramirez

as Carlos

Jonathan Velasquez

as Jonathan

Milton Velasquez

as Milton / Spermball

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Washington Post

What might have been a fascinating, intimate portrait turns into something much less compelling when Clark tries to impose a sex-and-action-packed narrative on the proceedings. Full Review

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by: Ann Hornaday

Salon.com

Shifting his focus away from white kids seems to have done Clark good, because Wassup Rockers is the least sensationalistic, and hence the least moralistic, of his films. It's an enjoyable if haphazard picaresque. Full Review

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by: Andrew O'Hehir

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