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2007 Certificate 15
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Director Gus Van Sant (Elephant, Last Days) returns with the highly anticipated film Paranoid Park. This adaptation of Blake Nelson's novel, follows 16-year-old skateboarder Alex, who accidentally kills a security guard outside Paranoid Park, Portland's most famous skateboarding park. When he decides to say nothing, he takes on .. Read more

Starring Gabe Nevins, Daniel Liu, Taylor Momsen, Jake Miller
Director Gus Van Sant
Genres Drama

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Paranoid Park

Director Gus Van Sant (Elephant, Last Days) returns with the highly anticipated film Paranoid Park. This adaptation of Blake Nelson's novel, follows 16-year-old skateboarder Alex, who accidentally kills a security guard outside Paranoid Park, Portland's most famous skateboarding park. When he decides to say nothing, he takes on a crushing burden of guilt with huge ramifications. Shot in Van Sant's hometown of Portland, Paranoid Park is full of suspense and and his most lyrical and stylish film to date.

Starring Gabe Nevins, Daniel Liu, Taylor Momsen, Jake Miller, Lauren McKinney, Winfield Jackson, Joe Schweitzer
Director Gus Van Sant
Studio PALISADES TARTAN
Run time DVD: 1 hr 25 mins
Blu-ray: 1 hr 21 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Collections New releases
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Blu-ray: English
Released DVD: 28 Apr 2008
Blu-ray: 28 Apr 2008
Production year: 2007
Format DVD

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    Rated - 0 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Rubbish..

    terrible, terrible movie. couldn't take it seriously at any point. poorly acted by non-actors and a pretentious piece of utter crap...

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    Rated - 3 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    give it a go

    Ok, I agree that this is quite a slow film, and there are a fair few slow-mo skateboarding shots of teenagers 'doing their thing'. But... it is quite an interesting little film about how difficult it can be trying to find yourself when pressure is all around - parental divorce, girlfriend hassle, getting in with the older skaters, being at school etc. It isn't a big action movie, but there is plenty there to keep watching. The main character, Alex, is fairly normal (but with a strangely limited range of emotional expressions!), who just wants to be part of the adult skating world (presumably hoping for a dad-substitute), and has a bad experience. The rest of the film just tags along with this, occasionally flipping to see scenes from different timelines, which sometimes works, but not all the time. It isn't making a point, or judging teen culture, or glorifying the skateboarding culture - it's more of a camera-following-a-kid-about thing, and Van Sant's approach definitely isn't for everybody.

    I didn't think I'd like it all all, but I got into it in a quiet way, and was glad to have followed it through. Take your pick!

      • DrMikey from Middlewich
      • Posted 27 Jun 2008 23:07

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    • 09 Jan 2008

    Alex (Gabe Nevins) says he wasn't there. And the cop (Dan Liu) doesn't have much reason not to believe him. He's not a bad kid; there's no indication he'd get mixed up in something like this. There is the matter of the witness who saw someone throwing a skateboard off the bridge that night - and Alex has a new board. But that's no crime, even if it's possible that the dead man was struck with a wooden object. Alex says he didn't go to the skateboard park that night, but he doesn't have a... Read more

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