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"The Wackness" is a film starring Ben Kingsley and the kid that played the bully number 2 (black hair) in "Drillbit Taylor" (the actually quite funny Owen Wilson flick). Its primary theme is that high school for Generation X was really weird and depressing and that shrinks (psychiatrists) are usually psychological wrecks themselves. Boring. And depressing. And been used in tons of movies before.
It has three separate plots that intertwine. The black-haired kid is a huge pot dealer that just graduated from high school (Summer 1994, they talk about Biggie takin' hip-hop over and Giuliani being a mean **** son-of-a-****) and makes tons of cash but feels totally alone in life. He deals pot by beeper and walks around Manhattan selling it out of a decrepit Icee cart. It would only have taken a couple days of doing that in Giuliani's New York before the kid got busted big-time. But you never even see a cop in the movie.
His shrink (Ben Kingsley) started out as his pot-client but then began giving him therapy in exchange for pot. He asks the shrink for medicine but Kingsley says no because in addition to being a pothead he is addicted to all his prescriptions. It shows Kingsley's tortured middle-aged life.
The third plot is that the dealer falls in love with Kingsley's step-daughter and Kingsley is angry because his wife (the girl's mother) is too selfish and drugged-out to care at all about her daughter. This was about 80 minutes in and I turned it off right when Kingsley flushed his personal pharmacy of pills and the kids were totally getting lovey-dovey. Totally cliched and overly melodramatic.
It was totally DDA (Depressing, Druggie, Arthouse) cinema. It wasn't even cool. All the old Biggie and Wu Tang hip-hop and the drugs didn't make it cooler like a lot of movies. All of those have been way too played out and this movie was just so plain depressing and plain boring.