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| Category | Dramas DVDs, Teenage Movies, True Story Videos, Competitions, Latinos | | Starring | Laura Cellner, Ashley Maldonado, Yunior Usualdo Panameno, Francisco Pedrasa, Carlos Ramirez, Luis Rojas Salgado, Jessica Steinbaum, Eddie Velasquez, Milton Velasquez, Jonathan Velasquez, Iris Zelaya | | Director | Larry Clark | | Executive Producer | Sharon Stone | | Music | Harry Cody | | Producer | Larry Clark, Henry Winterstern, Terry Spazek, Kevin Turen, Ramon Salgado, Patrick Meehan | | Screenwriter | Larry Clark |
Larry Clark tackles the controversial subject of teens and race in LA, aiming his lens on an unlikely crew of Latino skate punk kids from the ghetto neighborhood of South Central who just want to be themselves. When Jonathan, Kico, Eddie, Spermball, Porky, Louie and Carlos take an impromptu skating trip to Beverly Hills one day, they get into trouble with the cops, enjoy sexual encounters with rich white girls, and face off against hostile boyfriends and suspicious neighbors. It takes all of their strength and cunning to make their way back home to the (relative) safety of South Central. Overflowing with tenderness and sly humor, this DVD is another bold vision of youth under 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. Wassup Rockers Reviews: "[H]andsomely photographed....WASSUP ROCKERS has an upbeat lilt....Completely alive..."
-- Stephen Holden, New York Times "Clark does find a cocky sweetness in their camaraderie..."
-- Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly 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."-- Jonathan Crocker, Total Film "Pitched somewhere between LORDS OF DOGTOWN and THE WARRIORS, the results are unexpectedly sweet and engaging."-- Matthew Leyland, Sight and Sound Wassup Rockers | List Price | $14.98 (You save $4.93) | | Studio | First Look Home Entertainment | | Orig Year | 2006 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  31756  | | CD Universe Part number | 7272194 | | Catalog number | 32172 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Nov 21, 2006 | | Rating | R (MPAA) | | Rating Reason | for pervasive language, some violence, sexual content and teen drinking. | | Running Time | 111 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen | | Movie Details | Color; Widescreen; White Box |
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