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By djs5002 Overall, this was a pretty good film with an interesting point of view from the underdog. It tells the story of a high school senior that has no friends, sells drugs, is trying to lose his virginity, and the only person he confides in is his shrink. It’s a great coming of age story with ups and dow...

By djs5002 Overall, this was a pretty good film with an interesting point of view from the underdog. It tells the story of a high school senior that has no friends, sells drugs, is trying to lose his virginity, and the only person he confides in is his shrink. It’s a great coming of age story with ups and dow...

By therushmorefilmsociety The Wackness is set in 1994, another reason I liked it. People bag the 90s but I look back on them fondly and I can tell director Jonathan Levine does too. The physical setting is New York and the narrative is framed by one sweltering Big Apple summer. Ben Kingsley plays Dr. Squires, a pot-smoking...

By nothatwasacompliment Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley The best thing about the movie is probably the friendship between Luke and his therapist, Dr. Squires, played by Ben Kingsley.  Dr. Squires doesn’t charge Luke money for his therapy sessions.  Instead, Luke pays with marijuana.  Dime bags only get him about 10 minutes...

Steve Coogan is a good actor. Molly Shannon is a good actor. Olivia Thirlby and Josh Peck are good actors. Hilary Duff is … well, whatever. It's hard to figure out how so many decent entertainers got suckered into rookie director Jonathan Glatzer's hot ...

 United States and the Challenger shuttle disaster backdrop is queasy-making at best, offensive at worst. Josh Peck, the mouth-breathing co-star of TV's "Drake & Josh," plays a masturbating geek in search, like everyone else in this town, of material worth a toss.

Miami, FL (CNS) - Hilary Duff heads a mix of eclectic artists for the "What Goes Up" soundtrack, the soundtrack to the new film which features Duff, Steve Coogan, and "The Wackness" stars Josh Peck and Olivia Thirlby. The soundtrack is already ...

The 22-year-old former Drake & Josh star dished to MTV that he's trading in the pre-historic possum Eddie (his character in Ice Age 3) for a geeky alien named Sparks in Ashley Tisdale's new flick, Aliens in the Attic. Josh shared, “I think people are ...

  USA She caught her second break when she met with Dan Schneider, a prominent development executive who helped launch the careers of future stars like Amanda Bynes (The Amanda Show), Kenan Thompson (Kenan & Kel), and Josh Peck (Drake & Josh). ...

 OR Katie Franks is the author of all volumes, which include Drake Bell & Josh Peck, Miranda Cosgrove, Zac Efron, Dylan & Cole Sprouse, and Ashley Tisdale. It's a quick read for a prepubescent to be introduced to the world of Miley Cyrus.

 United States Josh Peck: The comedian also appeared on “The Amanda Show” before landing “Drake & Josh.” He’s making big-screen moves, most recently starring in “The Wackness.” Miranda Cosgrove: Appeared in pretty much every Nick show (“Drake & Josh,” “Unfabulous,” ...

Josh, not to bring up a sore subject, but Jonathan said at Tribeca he hadn't seen your Nickelodeon sitcom "Drake and Josh" before filming. Do you think that was like a good thing or a bad thing? JP: It was a bad thing only because he wasn't able to ...

By dansiella Top-billed among popular movie blog sites as The Movie Where Gandhi Sucks Face With That Olsen Twin, ‘The Wackness’ really IS that movie and a lot more. In the same vein as most coming-of-age movies, ‘The Wackness’ contains the usual ingredients of teenage angst tragicomedies set to a Man...

 CA - But nerdy teen rebel Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) is hearing none of it. A high school grad from an indigent family who's headed off to college in the fall, ...

By Phelim O'Neill Set in 1994 New York, this mixes the genres of coming-of-age drama and stoner movie to great, if subdued, effect. Josh Peck plays a busy pot dealer whose friendship with screwed-up psychiatrist Ben Kingsley provides the only working relationship in either of their lives.

 IL - By A. MARIE BALL / VOICE CORRESPONDENT A new TV movie starring popular, kid-friendly stars Drake Bell and Josh Peck premiered Dec. 5 on Nickelodeon. ...

By menhatten Other Products of Interest Drake And Josh: Chapter Book: Surprise! (Teenick)TelegraphDrake And Josh: Chapter Books #7: Josh Is Done (Teenick)Drake & Josh Match Made in Heaven (Nick)Drake And Josh: Chapter Book #5: Alien Invasion (Teenick) Drake Bell and Josh Peck grew up on oppo...

By editor@buddytv.com After a couple of spin-off movies, the irrepressible Nickelodeon teen duo Drake Bell and Josh Peck have another offering to their fans this Christmas, with the two-hour special Merry Christmas, Drake and Josh premiering tonight at 8pm.  The two are also producers for the movie.

By Thomas Caldwell It’s the summer of 1994 in New York and Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck from Nickelodeon’s family show Drake and Josh) has finished his final year at school. While most of his classmates have left the city for holidays, Luke is left behind to sell and smoke marijuana. Depressed, lonely and sexually f...

By jim9221 The Amanda Show - Amanda, Please! was one of the best movies i have seen in a long while. Amanda Bynes and Drake Bell worked really well together! The cast includes Amanda Bynes, Drake Bell, Raquel Lee, Josh Peck, Nancy Sullivan and ...

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By Derek Fleek Driven by a zany and crisp performance by a nearly unrecognizable Ben Kingsley and a blunt (yet throughly engaging) performance by Josh Peck, this is a nostalgia piece with endearing characters that brighten the screen's smoky glamour ...

 France - Luke – played by Josh Peck – is a teenage dope dealer. He pays Ben Kingsley – his psychiatrist and another lost soul – in marijuana and the two begin to ...

 CA - The show's stars Josh Peck (who I loved in The Wackness) and Miranda Cosgrove picked up the Kids' TV Show award, and Josh also picked up the TV Actor gong. ... 2008 Nickelodeon UK KCAs: Arrivals On The Orange Carpet PopSugar.com all 2 news articles

 UK - Aug 29, 2008 Welcome back to the 1990s. Here, filtered through a lens of Sundance-skewed quirkiness and a baked, stoner nostalgia, it is an era that, despite its liberal ... The Wackness RTE.ie You review: The Wackness guardian.co.uk Wack? Yes, good too ... and full of '90s slang Winnipeg Sun

This is London  UK - dealer Luke (Josh Peck) as he waits to go to college. What make this movie worth watching are the riveting performances by Sir Ben Kingsley and Peck. ... The Wackness Movie Review Future Movies The Wackness Digital Spy Likeable losers in The Wackness This is London

 UK - Aug 24, 2008 Ben Kingsley's New York accent wobbles from time to time, but he is clearly having a good time alongside the subtly impressive Josh Peck as the cliched ...

 United States - Aug 17, 2008 Josh Peck stars in "The Wackness," in which he plays a teenage pot dealer in 1994 New York, learning about life, love and hip-hop and selling dope to pay ...

Palo Alto Online  NY - The Wackness. With Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley. Directed by Jonathan Levine. Rated R (under 17 not admitted without parent), for drugs, language and sexuality. ... Video: Murder, Mayhem on 'Pineapple Express' AssociatedPress all 239 news articles

 OH - Aug 1, 2008 He is close to giving up his battle against aging when he takes on Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck), his pot supplier, as a special project. For each bag of grass, ...

 PA - Jul 31, 2008 This is the world in which high school senior Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) finds himself as he predicts a grim future: "Tomorrow I graduate from high school. ...

 OH - Starker In The Wackness, writer-director Jonathan Levine obviously has an autobiographical soft spot for his main character, Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck). ... Wackness' explores teen life Cincinnati.com all 2 news articles

 NY - Josh Peck is absolutely awesome in the role, as he holds back too much at times and expresses too much at others. He’s incredibly convincing, and reminded ...

 TX - Jul 25, 2008 Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) peddles marijuana, and his most frequented client is his own shrink, Dr. Squires (Sir Ben Kingsley). The good doctor happens to be ...

The Wackness. 2 stars. Directed by Jonathan Levine. Stars Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley. Rated R. Opens Fri., July 25. At Landmark Midtown Art Cinema. These days, if you were to drop stale slang terms like the adjective forms of "wack" or ...

 - Jul 18, 2008 In fact, one of the things about The Wackness that draws us in, and keeps us in, is the way writer-director Jonathan Levine and actor Josh Peck make Luke ...

By Steve Persall The Wackness features three terrific performances by Ben Kingsley (of course), Olivia Thirlby (which I might have guessed after Juno) and Josh Peck (who woulda thunk it, except Daly since he watches Nickelodeon). ...

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 TX - Jul 11, 2008 That is where high school student Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) enters the picture. While new Mayor Rudolph Guliani is busy rounding up the streets of all ...

By H.A.R. Here’sa new one you can watch out for – Josh Peck! The former child star from Nickelodeon and "Nick and Josh" is now all grown up and looking like a dreamboat! If you watched Drake and Josh, you’ll remember him as the chubby kid. ...

By intr0vert The Wackness My gym is right next to one of the best movie theatres in the world. So before I went running yesterday I decided to see “The Wackness” starring Sir Ben Kingsley and Josh Peck. It’s the story of Luke Shapiro, ...

By Bob Tourtellotte LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Josh Peck has spent much of his teenage and young adult life in front of television cameras portraying the ... Josh Peck stars in The Wackness Crave Online Movie Review: 'The Wackness' RedOrbit

By Brent Bozell The young pot-dealer is played by Josh Peck, who just months ago was delighting hundreds of thousands of small children as a rubber-faced jokester on Nickelodeon’s teen comedy "Drake and Josh." One of his regular pothead customers is ...

By funofmovie Luke is a pot dealer just about to graduate high school. He's not a loser, but he's not one of the cool kids. He only gets invited to the parties when they need more weed. Luke is also in a very strange form of therapy - he's selling pot to his classmate's shrink father, who is paying him in the form of sessions. The Wackness takes place over the summer between high school graduation and leaving for college as the lives of Luke and his therapist fall apart in major ways.Sir Ben Kingsley plays Dr. Squires, the shrink who is looking to recapture his youth by hanging out with the dope dealing kid. He's a huge mess, taking bong hits in his office and a handful of pills when he gets home. Josh Peck, the fat kid from Mean Creek (he's not fat at all anymore) is Luke, who is...   [read the full post]

Fans who haven't seen Josh Peck since his early days on Nickelodeon's "Drake & Josh" will notice at least one big difference in "The Wackness. ... Movie Review: The Wackness Geeks of Doom Olivia Thirlby is smoking in 'The Wackness' New York Daily News

By editor@buddytv.com Drake Bell and Josh Peck have both successfully moved on to pursue their own careers following their stint on the Nickelodeon series Drake & Josh.  After four years of playing Drake Parker on the teen sitcom, Bell has welcomed the ‘bittersweet ending” of the series and has concentrat...

By Jason Hughes More than a year after their popular series ended, Drake Bell and Josh Peck will reunite for a Drake & Josh Christmas movie. The plot revolves around the duo working as mall Santa and helper and promising a foster care girl the "best ...

By BuzzSugar Also, it's got Josh Peck, Olivia Thirlby and Ben Kingsley at the heart of it, which is what ended up endearing this movie to me most of all. Peck plays Luke Shapiro, a kid on the Upper East Side who deals pot and feels alone amongst his ...

By Alex Billington The Wackness, set in the nostalgic 1990s, is about Luke Shapiro - one of New York City's biggest pot dealers and a loser of a kid who is looking to make something of his summer. The film stars Josh Peck as well as Ben Kingsley, ...

By Tom Wright-Piersanti The world was your oyster, Josh.  Riding high on the success of The Amanda Show, Nickelodeon gave you a lucrative contract for your own sitcom, which they promised would be called "Josh & Drake."  You even were promised a record deal, and you brought your accordion to the set the very fir...

By Seth The Wackness Antihero: Teen drug dealer Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck). Disease/Problem: Drug-addicted psychiatrist Dr. Squires (Ben Kingsley); a troubled youth in need of counseling. Solution: Bartering pot for therapy. Unconventional Romantic Angle: Luke falls for Squire's daughter

By Mean Critic The film stars young Josh Peck as Luke, a teenage drug dealer who trades pot for sessions with his therapist Dr. Squires, played by Kingsley. Mary-Kate plays Union, one of Peck's customers. The film stars young Josh Peck as Luke, a teenage drug dealer who trades pot for sessions with his thera...