Landmark Century Centre Cinema
2828 N Clark St
773.509.4949
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The Wackness
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July 11, 2008 – Aug 21, 2008
Daily
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- Price
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$10
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The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About a teenage weed dealer (Josh Peck) who trades dime bags for sessions with his girlfriend's shrink father (Sir Ben Kingsley), it's awash with nostalgia for 1994 NYC's hip-hop culture. Factor in a screen kiss between Kingsley and Mary-Kate Olsen as a trustafarian, and you've got the stuff that paparazzi dreams are made of. But the movie transcends its schticky premise, if unevenly, by allowing its actors to really sink their teeth into the abject misery that fading love can trigger.
