THE WACKNESS
THE WACKNESS takes us back to 1994’s New York as Rudi Giuliani embarked on turning the mean street into clean streets in the Big Apple. Josh Peck plays Luke, a confused high school senior spending his transition summer selling ganja from a modified ice cream vending unit to Central Park customers one of whom is Union played by Mary-Kate Olson (lets hope this sparks her appetite). Josh’s parents have marital problems largely due to financial problems which does little for his delicate self esteem. He barters weed for psychoanalysis from Dr. Squires (Ben Kingsley in a bad mullet – like there’s any other kind) who might not be so anxious to prescribe wanton sexual abandon if he knew that his step daughter Kristin (Famke Janssen) was the current focus of Luke’s lust and that the two were forming a hesitant relationship. Luke knows that she’s completely out of his league but his cool persistence is winning her over. During the hip hop summer of ’94 Luke manages to rise above a lot of the “wackness” that he finds himself steeped in.