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  • Paranoid Park
  • Opened March 7, 2008 | Runtime:1 hr. 25 min.
  • R
    some disturbing images, language and sexual content
  • Information for parents: Common Sense Media says OK for kids 16+. Read More
  • The grisly death of a security guard in the vicinity of Paranoid Park, Portland’s toughest home-grown skate venue, makes high school sophomore Alex (Gabe Nevins) a person of interest to homicide detectives. Knowing he is under suspicion, Alex comes Read More
  • Cast: Gabe Nevins, Taylor Momsen, Jake Miller, Dan Liu, Lauren McKinney, Scott Green
  • Director: Gus Van Sant
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign, Drama

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  • Gabe Nevins as Alex in "Paranoid Park."
  • Gabe Nevins as Alex in "Paranoid Park."
  • Director Gus Van Sant and Gabe Nevins on the set of "Paranoid Park."
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  • No

    Park-ing NOT Recommended for ?PARANOID PARK? =

    by jimchudnow

    I?ve liked a lot of work done by director Gus Van Sant. This 80+-minute endeavor, however, is NOT one of them. What some people may call ?art-sy? in this film, I call SLOW-moving. It?s the sometimes interesting story of a teenage skate-boarder named Alex (GABE NEVINS) who spends a lot of time with his ?boarder friend Jared (JAKE MILLER), in part to escape the upset of his divorcing parents. One day, while fooling around on a freight train near the irregular skate park, Alex causes a horrendous catastrophe. The overall story is told with loads of what I call ?cascading? back-&-forth flashbacks, maddeningly wrapped inside what to me were a lot of often fuzzy-focused ?dead? scenes that go ?nowhere?. While Gabe at times has the appropriately general spaciness of a teenager, I found too much of it akin to ?sleep-walking? impassively through the story. This a not a ?horrible? film, but it (and especially the ?disintegrating? non-end of it) isn?t very good. At best, I'd give it 2.5 stars

  • Oh No!

    Paranoid Park

    by gfunfsinn

    Main Entry: awful
    Part of Speech: adjective
    Definition: terrible
    Synonyms: abominable, alarming, appalling, atrocious, bad, deplorable, depressing, dire, disgusting, distressing, dreadful, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grody*, gross*, gruesome, grungy*, harrowing, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrific, horrifying, nasty, offensive, raunchy, repulsive, shocking, stinking, synthetic, tough, ugly, unpleasant, unsightly
    Antonyms: beautiful, good, nice, pleasing

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  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    Appropriately structured like a ride on skateboard: It swoops back and forth in...

  • 100
    Los Angeles Times | Carina Chocano

    Youth and death meet again in Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park, a gorgeously stark,...

  • 100
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    A haunting, voluptuously beautiful portrait of a teenage boy who, after being...

  • 90
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    It's a new and inspired vision of a familiar state of being -- teenage anomie...

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