This now marks the fourth entirely different trailer for the Sundance hit The Wackness in two months time. I don't know what Sony Pictures Classics is thinking, but releasing trailer after trailer isn ...

We don't normally mention box office earnings on a regular basis, but today I'm proud to announced that The Wackness kicked Hancock's ass this past weekend. Well, not entirely true, but it is accurate ...

Continuing a productive relationship with the Sundance Film Festival, Celluloid Dreams has picked up international rights outside North America to Jonathan Levine’s Sundance Dramatic Audience Award ...

The Wackness seems to have everything going for it. It was Sony Pictures Classics’ big Sundance acquisition this year, and comes into Tribeca riding a wave of buzz. It co-stars your new indie crush ...

Yo, there's Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck), the 18-year-old Upper East Side Manhattanite Alice Cooper sang about in "I'm Eighteen." He's "in the middle without any plans," full of doubts and desires, a boy ...

Writer-director Jonathan Levine remembers auditioning 20 other actors before Josh Peck came in to read for the part of Luke Shapiro, the teenage dope dealer at the heart of Levine's sophomore feature, ...

Like "Donnie Darko," "Thumbsucker" and a few others, "The Wackness" treads the familiar teenage male terrain with assurance and distinction. At first glance, it doesn’t look like it’s going to be much ...

Take an Oscar-winning screen veteran. Match him with a teen star from Nickelodeon. Who do you think comes out on top? If it's Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck and The Wackness we're talking about, the answer ...

Story line NYC kids spend one day in the summer of ‘94 smoking weed and deflowering virgins. NYC prep-school kid spends the summer of ‘94 dealing weed and getting himself deflowered. Uniform Backpacks ...

The Wackness: Comedy-drama. Starring Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley and Olivia Thirlby. Directed by Jonathan Levine. (R. 95 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) It's 1994, and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is about to ...

first film, but it feels like it, with its emphasis on coming-of-age at a specific time in a specific place: Subject matter that has fueled more than a couple of debut novels and movies. It's set in ...