Wassup Rockers (White Box) R

Wassup Rockers (White Box)
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 51 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 21, 2006
  • Originally Released: 2006
  • Label: Alchemy / Millennium

Performers, Cast and Crew:

Starring , , , , , , , , , &
Directed by
Music by
Screenwriting by
Produced by , , , , &
Executive Production by

Entertainment Reviews:

Rotten38%

TOMATOMETER
Total Count: 53

Upright64%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 8,683
Rating: C- -- It was hard to keep awake during all the tedium. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Dec 4, 2006
3 stars out of 5 -- [P]epped by the punky soundtrack, Clark's gentle, carefree approach again tickles out fresh, intimate insights into US urban youth.
Total Film
May 1, 2007
Clark's warmest, loosest work yet, but it would have been better if the director had realized he didn't need to make us hate everyone else in order to get us to love these little dudes. Full Review
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
Sep 12, 2010
...a sharply observed look at juvenile rebellion
Denton Record-Chronicle
Aug 31, 2006
Rating: 2.5/4 -- The main characters may be refreshingly cliché-free, but almost everyone they meet in Beverly Hills is a stilted cartoon. Full Review
Boston Globe
Jul 7, 2006
Rating: 1/4 -- Tries to say something profound about these kids, while oversimplifying the world around them to the point of ridiculousness. Full Review
San Francisco Chronicle
Jul 7, 2006
Rating: 1/5 -- The themes are set up and then completely pushed into the background in exchange for almost endless dribble that feels more like a first time attempt of a film student rather than an actual film...
Film Threat
Jul 10, 2007

Product Description:

In 1995, photographer Larry Clark burst onto the indie scene with the controversial KIDS, a tough, realistic look at a group of teenagers hanging around the seamier side of New York City, getting involved in sex and drugs amid the AIDS crisis. A decade later, Clark (BULLY, KEN PARK) went across the country to make WASSUP ROCKERS, about a group of Latino teenagers experimenting with sex, playing and listening to punk rock, dressing in their own style, and looking for the perfect place to skateboard. The seven teens, led by Jonathan (Jonathan Velasquez), take two buses to get to Beverly Hills High, where they start boarding down difficult steps. They are excited when two white students, Jade (Laura Cellner) and Nikki (Jessica Steinbaum), invite them to their house, but they are soon on the run after being harassed by a racist cop (Chris Neville). They make it to the huge house, but they have to take off again when Jade and Nikki's rich white male friends catch them there, sending them off on a perilous journey through ritzy Beverly Hills as they try to get back to South Central--what one of them proudly calls the Ghetto. No matter how hard the kids try, they are unable to avoid violence; it is too entrenched in their dangerous world. In this gritty urban drama of class conflict, racism, and boys just trying to be boys, Clark displays how deep the ills of society still go, all set to a raging punk soundtrack featuring songs by such bands as South Central Riot Squad, the Remains, Moral Decay, and the Retaliators.

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