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[Luke] lays his heart on the line to Dr. [Squires]: "I'm mad depressed, yo." The shrink comes back with advice on conducting "a beaver hunt, a pussy quest." This is exactly how an aspiring young writer fantasizes an exchange between him and his therapist-it takes place here through the magic of movies. Before long, they're going out to bars together in the last days of New York State's 18-year-old drinking age, smoking blunts, and Luke is dubbing mixtapes for the doc. In fact, the shrink is such a case of arrested development he should be paying Luke for advice, which in a way he does-the kid ends up paying his psychologist bills with ganja and taking Dr. Squires with him on his rounds. And then Luke falls in love with [Stephanie], the shrink's stepdaughter. Word!
Around the edges, The Wackness is stuffed with vivid characters like Luke's customers Union (Mary-Kate Olsen) and Eleanor (Jane Adams), and his Jamaican connection, Percy (Method Man). And of course a suture tray full of vintage hip-hop by the Notorious B.I.G. ("The What"), A Tribe Called Quest ("Can I Kick It?"), R- Kelly ("Bump & Grind"), Wu-Tang Clan ("Tearz"), Raekwon & Ghostface Killah ("Heaven & Hell"), et al. By the time Luke resorts to taking the Big Swim off Fire Island in the last reel, we know he doesn't really need to go through with it. It's just an exercise. So is The Wackness, but it's an exercise in style and wit, two commodities that never go out of fashion.See the full content of this document
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Hip Hop Hooray
Hip Hop Hooray
Ready for '90s nostalgia? The Wackness is ill to the core.The makers of The Wackness would like us to visualize its setting inside a concise set of coordinates: New York City in the early '90s, the era...See the full content of this document
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