Ken Park (2003)
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Ken Park rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic
IMDb5.8/10· 32K votes
Rotten Tomatoes50%
TMDb5.977/10· 681 votesWith 50% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 5.8/10 on IMDb, critical reception of this film has been mixed.
About Ken Park
Teen skater Ken Park (nicknamed Krap Nek; his name spelled and pronounced backward) kills himself at a Visalia skate park; his death bookends the lives of four other young people who knew him: Shawn, the most conventional; Tate brims with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother; and Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim.
Cast of Ken Park
James Ransone
as Tate
Tiffany Limos
as Peaches
Stephen Jasso
as Claude
James Bullard
as Shawn
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Mike Apaletegui
as Curtis
Adam Chubbuck
as Ken Park
Amanda Plummer
as Claude's Mother
Wade Williams
as Claude's Father
Maeve Quinlan
as Rhonda
Richard Riehle
as Murph
Bill Fagerbakke
as Bob
Julio Oscar Mechoso
as Peaches' Father
Ken Park facts
- Budget
- $1.3M
- Box office
- $447.7K
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Audience opinions
What the audience liked
- •Unflinching drama tackles difficult social realities with clarity
- •Complex character study examining abuse patterns with nuance
- •Raw emotional authenticity distinguishes from typical family narratives
What the audience disliked
- •Graphic content severely limits audience accessibility and appeal
- •Bleak worldview and dark subject matter overwhelm narrative resolution
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