The Wackness (movie)

Chris Noth's focus had shifted from career to family when his agent called about a role in the Atlantic Theater Company's off-Broadway production of a new political drama, "Farragut North." After wrapping up his last season of "Law & Order: Criminal...

NEW YORK (AP) _ Chris Noth's focus had shifted from career to family when his agent called about a role in the Atlantic Theater Company's off-Broadway production of a new political drama, "Farragut North." After wrapping up his last season of "Law &...

Peer behind the smoke of comedies like " Pineapple Express," " The Wackness," "Dazed and Confused" and "Dude, Where's My Car," and you'll find the team that sparked the first of what has become its own genre: stoner films. But a string of hit movies that...

WHO John Malkovich THE DEAL Independent film has seen better days: Warner Bros. is shutting down both Warner Independent Pictures and Picturehouse; the New York-based ThinkFilm is on the financial ropes; and London's Tartan Films has closed its doors....

Josh Peck of TV's Drake & Josh left his kiddie TV show days behind him with the indie coming-of-age dramedy The Wackness this summer, playing a pot dealer who finds love and sex over one magical summer before college. Drake Bell of TV's Drake & Josh -- he...

Josh Peck of TV's "Drake & Josh" left his kiddie TV show days behind him with the indie coming-of-age dramedy " The Wackness," playing a pot dealer who finds love and sex over one magical summer before college. Drake Bell (also "Drake & Josh") tries to go...

Having braved the wilds of Alaska on "Men in Trees" the past two seasons, Cynthia Stevenson will try her hand at "Surviving Suburbia." Stevenson will star opposite Bob Saget in The CW's comedy series, which debuts in the fall. In other casting news, Jane...

"Elegy" is a curious example of misplaced good taste. Spanish-born director Isabel Coixet's film, adapted by Nicholas Meyer, recasts into softer, more palatable material the 2001 novella "The Dying Animal," the third in Philip Roth's stories driven by the...

Luke Shapiro, the depressed high school grad at the center of " The Wackness," labors to be more than just your average white homeboy in 1994 New York City. Occasionally he succeeds. He drops the hip-hop qualifier "mad" (read: very) into every third...

(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...