Event Date and Time:
May 22, 2008
6pm
Location:
Cantor Film Center - Theater 200
36 East 8th Street
New York, NY
Two people, however, are missing out on the excitement. Luke (Josh Peck) is a socially uncomfortable teenage pot dealer with no friends, issues with his parents, and a whopping lack of confidence with girls. He trades weed for sessions with his therapist, Dr. Squires (Sir Ben Kingsley), whose much-younger wife (Famke Janssen) is slipping away from him. Squires, a drug-addled shrink with a hairline retreating to the back of his neck and a state of mind slouching back to adolescence, is an unlikely role modelU+2014but the two of them forge a friendship based on a mutual need: neither one has a significant romantic relationship.
The intergenerational duo set off on a crawl that takes them all over New York, where they encounter several of Luke's "business associates,U+201D including a Phish-following dreadlocked pixie (Mary Kate Olsen), a New Wave, keyboard-playing one-hit-wonder (Jane Adams), and LukeU+2019s supplier (Method Man).
Luke has long had an aching crush on Dr. Squires' way-out-of-his league stepdaughter, Stephanie (Olivia Thirlby from U+201CJunoU+201D), and is stunned at his good luck when she returns his affections. LukeU+2019s innocent first love experience with Stephanie becomes a life lesson that sets him on the pathway towards adulthood. And when Squires breaks down, it is up to the younger man to throw the older one a lifeline.
Propelled by an exuberant hip hop score, U+201CThe WacknessU+201D captures the spell of 1994--a time of pagers, not cell phones; a time when Tupac and Biggie were alive but Kurt Cobain had just died. Funny and moving, U+201CThe WacknessU+201D is an offbeat tale of two lost souls stumbling towards maturity.
Admission is free-of-charge and you may bring one guest. RSVP's are not required but NYU ID's are.
