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Overview

User Rating:
6.9/10   10,692 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Gus Van Sant (screenplay)
Blake Nelson (novel)
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Release Date:
24 October 2007 (Belgium) more
Plot:
A teenage skateboarder's life begins to fray after he is involved in the accidental death of a security guard. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
4 wins & 4 nominations more
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(68 articles)
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Not for everybody more (86 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Gabe Nevins ... Alex
Daniel Liu ... Detective Richard Lu (as Dan Liu)
Jake Miller ... Jared

Taylor Momsen ... Jennifer
Lauren McKinney ... Macy
Scott Patrick Green ... Scratch (as Scott Green)
John Michael Burrowes ... Security Guard (as John 'Mike' Burrowes)
Grace Carter ... Alex's Mom
Jay 'Smay' Williamson ... Alex's Dad
Christopher Doyle ... Uncle Tommy
Dillon Hines ... Henry
Emma Nevins ... Paisley
Brad Peterson ... Jolt
Winfield Jackson ... Christian (as Winfield Henry Jackson)
Joe Schweitzer ... Paul
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for some disturbing images, language and sexual content.
Runtime:
85 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Director Cameo: [Gus Van Sant]Makes an appearance in the coffee shop scene, reading a newspaper. more
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Continuity: During the scene where Alex pushes the guard who gets slashed by the trains' wheels, the guard falls backwards, so he's suppose to be lying on his back, but on the shot where Alex is standing next to him, the guard seems to be as he fell forward, and lies on his stomach. more
Quotes:
Detective Richard Lu: No mayo? You got to have mayo on that.
Alex: Mayo is sick.
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References Frankenstein (1931) more
Soundtrack:
The White Lady Loves You More more

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53 out of 71 people found the following comment useful.
Not for everybody, 30 December 2007
6/10
Author: seawalker from Birmingham, England

"Paranoid Park" is about what is going on in the head of a teenage boy after he has experienced a shattering trauma. He is dislocated and remote and 'not all there', or is he just in shock? It really is up to the audience to decide for themselves, because in an experimental movie like this one, no easy answers are forthcoming.

In general I quite like Gus Van Sant's films, but be aware that you need to judge each of his films on their own merits. This is hardly the Gus Van Sant of Hollywoodian mild indie fare like "To Die For", "Psycho", "Good Will Hunting" or "Finding Forrester". Stylistically "Paranoid Park" is a close cousin to his later "Elephant". Low key, quiet, internalised, sometimes naturalistic, but often dreamy, and with a chronologically fractured time line. None of the actors seemed to be acting at all. Brilliant casting or brilliant acting? I am unsure.

Not for everybody.

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