Tate is an unstable and sadistic adolescent living with his grandparents, whom he resents and frequently abuses verbally. When her father catches her and her boyfriend Curtis on her bed about to have sex, he beats the boy and savagely disciplines her, including forcing her to participate in a quasi-incestuous wedding ritual with him. Peaches is a girl living alone with her obsessive and overly-religious father, who fixates on her as the embodiment of her deceased mother. However, after coming home drunk one night, he attempts to perform oral sex on Claude, prompting the boy to run away from home. Claude's father detests him for being insufficiently manly. He casually socializes with her family, who are all completely unaware of the affair, including her husband and his girlfriend Hannah.Ĭlaude fends off physical and emotional abuse from his alcoholic father while trying to take care of his neglectful pregnant mother, who never does anything to defend him. Throughout the story, he has an ongoing sexual relationship with his girlfriend's mother, Rhonda. Shawn (James Bullard) is the most stable of the four main characters.
His death is used to bookend the film, which follows the lives of four teens who knew him in the weeks running up to his suicide. He arrives at a skate park, where he casually sits in the middle of it, sets up a camcorder, smiles, and shoots himself in the temple with a handgun.
The movie was premiered on Augat the Telluride Film Festival.The opening of the film depicts teenager Ken Park (nicknamed "Krap Nek" which is his first and last name spelled and pronounced backward), skateboarding across Visalia, California.
Having failed to combine all the facts in a single script, Larry was forced to seek help from a professional screenwriter. According to Larry Clark, the creator of the film, the script was written based on television reports, newspaper notes, his own diaries and youth observations of peers.Due to the overly explicit sexual scenes, this film is still banned from screening in Australia, Norway, Belarus and Canada. In addition, the director of the film, Larry Clark, attacked the head of “Ken Park’s” UK distribution company, and the UK release of the film was also canceled. For example, the “Ken Park” movie was not shown in US theaters due to improper legalization of music tracks. The film was not allowed for distribution in some countries for various reasons.Touring film festivals until the end of the year, the film was released in January 2002. The “Ken Park” movie was first introduced to the public at the Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2002.
This is such a tragic teenage life in the “Golden State”. The spotlight is on Ken Park, a red-haired guy who comes to a skate rink one day and takes video of him blowing his brains out with a pistol. Meet four teenagers from California who are tormented by heat, idleness and passion in their small town of Visalia, located between Los Angeles and San Francisco.