Ken Park (2003)

6.0/10 97 min Drama

Overview

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

James Ransone

Tate

Tiffany Limos

Peaches

Stephen Jasso

Claude

James Bullard

Shawn

Adam Chubbuck

Ken Park

Amanda Plummer

Claude's Mother

Wade Williams

Claude's Father

Maeve Quinlan

Rhonda

Richard Riehle

Murph

Bill Fagerbakke

Bob

Julio Oscar Mechoso

Peaches' Father

Patricia Place

Tate's Grandmother

Harrison Young

Tate's Grandfather

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