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Ben Kingsley makes 'The Wackness' worth watching
Special to The Morning CallThat first sight of Ben Kingsley sucking down a bowl will burn into your memory. You may be watching '' The Wackness,'' but it's hard to forget that this is Gandhi putting Bic to bong in Jonathan Levine's silly, sappy and sympathetic coming-of-age memoir....Tags: Sales, Ben Kingsley, Notorious B.I.G., Mary-Kate Olsen, Movies
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Coming soon
Next Friday BRIDESHEAD REVISITED (Miramax) Between the world wars, a young British man becomes infatuated with an aristocratic family and its lifestyle. With Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon and Matthew Goode. MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN (Lionsgate) The lure of...Tags: Jet Li, Family, Elections, Movies, Emma Thompson
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'Wackness' comes of age
Sun movie critic(B+) The Wackness is a funny, touching mood piece about a New York City high-school grad named Luke (Josh Peck) and marijuana dealer who spends three months before college trading dope for therapy with his shrink ( Ben Kingsley) and falling in love with...Tags: Ben Kingsley, Mary-Kate Olsen, Jane Adams, Movies, The Wackness
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'Wackness' doesn't live up to its hype
amNewYork Movie Critic"The Wackness" is set in Manhattan, 1994, and not a minute goes by where director/writer Jonathan Levine doesn't whack you over the head with reminders that it's Manhattan, 1994. In the first 10 minutes you get references to Zima, Zelda, Pearl Jam and...Tags: Ben Kingsley, Mary-Kate Olsen, Notorious B.I.G., Robin Williams, Movies
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Thursday's Highlights
SERIES Funny dozen: The top 12 comedy acts are chosen on "Last Comic Standing" (8 p.m. NBC). Garbage truck: A Ford Explorer is converted into a garbage truck on the season premiere of "Monster Garage" (8 and 8:30 p.m. TLC). Dancing dozen: Two...Tags: Elections, Baseball, Jessica Alba, CBS Corp., NBC
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'The Wackness': Hello, drug cloud, my old friend ...
Special to the TribuneFor about half its length, Jonathan Levine's film "The Wackness" resembles a grunge remake of "The Graduate," updated for the peculiarly specific setting of 1994 New York City. While it maintains a sleepy, druggy tone for most of its length, rather than...Tags: Sex, Family, Ben Kingsley, Sony Corp., Notorious B.I.G.
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Other movies this summer
Special to NewsdayIt's not all about blowing stuff up, though it often seems that way. The summer movie season is also about the stuff lurking beneath the hype radar -- or, maybe, just gets shouldered off to the side by the bigger, noisier product. Sometimes, though,...Tags: Movies, Don Cheadle, Central Intelligence Agency, M. Night Shyamalan, Mark Wahlberg
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'Turn the River'
rafer.guzman@newsday.comWhy has Chris Eigeman, the longtime member of Whit Stillman's acting ensemble ("Metropolitan," "The Last Days of Disco"), waited so long to get behind the camera? "Turn the River," his directing debut (he also wrote the script), is a small-scale but...Tags: Movies, Manhattan (New York City)
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Denise Richards Voted Worst Bond Girl Ever
Zap2It.comDenise Richards has a curious distinction in the world of 007, but it's one she'd rather live without. The 36-year-old actress was named the Worst Bond Girl Ever by fans, reports the UK's Daily Mail from an unscientific poll. Richards played nuclear...Tags: Pierce Brosnan, Enya, Ursula Andress, Public Holidays, Carey Lowell
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That's wack!
Here's an image that'll be difficult to top at Sundance: Mary-Kate Olsen making out in a phone booth with Gandhi. In "The Wackness," an early buzz movie that premiered Friday night at the festival, Sir Ben Kingsley plays a psychiatrist who trades therapy...Tags: Method Man, Ben Kingsley, Mary-Kate Olsen, Notorious B.I.G., Nintendo Company Ltd.
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Olsen and a sexy beast heat up Sundance fest
Here's an image that'll be difficult to top at Sundance: Mary-Kate Olsen making out with Gandhi. In "The Wackness," Sir Ben Kingsley plays a psychiatrist who trades therapy for marijuana with Josh Peck of Nickelodeon's "Drake & Josh." The Kingsley...Tags: Ben Kingsley, Mary-Kate Olsen, Film Festivals, Movies, Utah
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'The Treatment'
Special to NewsdayShow of hands, please: Does anyone want to see an amiable romantic dramedy by a maker of sobering religious documentaries? Yes, actually, you do. Oren Rudavsky, whose previous work includes "Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust,"...Tags: John Anderson, New York, Movies, Manhattan (New York City), Western Medicines
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