The Wackness (2008)

The Wackness is a small indie coming of age films, usually one of my favorite sub-genres, that stars a young man I am familiar with from the Nickelodeon show Drake and Josh. I was excited to see the movie when I realized Josh Peck was in it. The kid is funny.

The movie also stars Sir Ben Kingsley, Juno’s Olivia Thrilby and Famke Janssen as a family trying to stay together in 1990’s New York City. The movie covers the first summer out of high school of socially awkward and burned out drug dealer Luke Shapiro. Basically that’s it. There’s not much here to say about this film. It lacks heart as well as story.