Ken Park (2003)

Synopsis

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.

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Cast

• James Ransone as Tate
• Tiffany Limos as Peaches
• Stephen Jasso as Claude
• James Bullard as Shawn
• 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

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