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Ken Park is a 2002 erotic drama teensploitation written by Harmony Korine, who based it on Larry Clark's journals and stories. The film was directed and shot by Clark and Edward Lachman. The film is an international co-production of the United States, the Netherlands, and France. An application in respect of the film Ken Park was the subject of extensive media reporting in 2002-2003. In a split decision on 21 May 2003, seven members of the Board classified Ken Park refused classification for depictions of actual sex.
| Born | January 31, 1980 (age 40) Dallas, Texas, U.S. |
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| Occupation | Actor |
| Peaches in Ken Park |
Tiffany Limos (born January 31, 1980) is an American actress known for her role as Peaches the harlot in the 2002 film Ken Park.[1][2][3] Limos made her acting debut in 2002 with the film Teenage Caveman.[citation needed] By 2003, Limos had also written three scripts.[4] In 2007, Limos was honored at the Cinemanila Film Festival by then-President of the Philippines Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Limos also tributed the Cannes Directors' Fortnight at the Cinemanila Film Festival, she honored Olivier Pere the President of the Cannes Directors' Fortnight.[3]Limos and film critic Elvis Mitchell interview Limos in the documentary New York Conversations in 2010.
Early life[edit]
Tiffany Limos was born in Dallas, Texas.[5][6][1]
Career[edit]
At 16, Limos began modeling for the Ford agency and appeared in teen magazines like Sassy and YM. She subsequently quit modeling and worked as a hostess at the Coffee Shop in Manhattan's Union Square. She worked at Visionaire and 'V' magazine as a creative consultant in 1999.[1] That same year Limos wrote a script for Larry Clark called American Girl From Texas that Clark has often cited as his dream project.[7]
In 2012, Limos appeared in Raya Martin's film The Great Cinema Party which was a part of that year's Jeonju Digital Project.[8] In 2013 directed Academy Award Winning Director Michel Gondry for Nowness.com [9] Limos collaborated with Michel Gondry for a decade and helped him on such projects as The Block Party, The Science of Sleep, and produced a video for Kanye West called Heard'em Say.[5][6] Limos apprenticed and worked for Larry Clark, Quentin Tarantino, Michel Gondry, Woody Allen, and Spike Lee.[6]
Filmography[edit]
- New York Conversations (2010)
- The Thorn in the Heart (2009)[10]
- Untitled Kanye West Project (2007 film)
- Friendly Fire (2006)
- Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2006)
- Sueño (2005)[11]
- Larry Clark, Great American Rebel (2003)
- Ken Park (2002)[12]
- Teenage Caveman (2002)[13]
References[edit]
- ^ abcGeorge Gurley. 'A Naked Star is Born'. Observer.
- ^'Tiffany Limos'. Lab Productions. October 4, 2002. Archived from the original on May 17, 2006. Retrieved October 21, 2015.
- ^ ab'Fil-Am actress confirms Tarantino's love for the barong'. Philippine Daily Inquirer. December 22, 2007. Archived from the original on January 17, 2008. Retrieved October 21, 2015.
- ^'Beautiful People 2003: Tiffany Limos'. Paper Magazine. April 1, 2013. Retrieved October 21, 2015.
- ^ abLazarte, Kalvin. 'A Cinephile's Labyrinth'.
- ^ abcLoaëc, Gildas 'A Cinephile's Labyrinth with Michel Gondry by Tiffany Limos'.
- ^Smith, Damon The Kids Are Not Alright. http://brightlightsfilm.com/61/61larryclarkiv.php#.Up7FknZDHsI
- ^'Review: 'Jeonju Digital Project 2012''. Variety. July 12, 2012. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
- ^Bourgeois, Anne. Michel Gondry: A Cinephile's Labyrinth. http://www.nowness.com/day/2013/3/5/2863/michel-gondry-a-cinephiles-labyrinth
- ^'The Thorn in the Heart'. San Francisco Film Society. Archived from the original on October 18, 2015. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
- ^'Latin L.A. story 'Sueno' lands at El Camino'. The Hollywood Reporter.
- ^'Ken Park'. Variety.
- ^'Freestyling with Larry Clark'. San Diego Union-Tribune.
External links[edit]
- Tiffany Limos on IMDb
| Ken Park | |
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| Directed by | Larry Clark Edward Lachman |
| Produced by | Kees Kasander Jean-Louis Piel |
| Screenplay by | Harmony Korine |
| Based on | stories and journals by Larry Clark |
| Starring |
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| Cinematography | Larry Clark Ed Lachman |
| Edited by | Andrew Hafitz |
Kasander Film Company Cinéa | |
| Distributed by | Vitagraph Films (US) A-Film Distribution (Netherlands) Fortissimo Films |
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| 96 minutes | |
| Country | United States Netherlands France |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.3 million |
Ken Park is a 2002 eroticdrama teensploitation written by Harmony Korine, who based it on Larry Clark's journals and stories. The film was directed and shot by Clark and Edward Lachman. The film is an international co-production of the United States, the Netherlands, and France. The film revolves around the abusive and dysfunctional home lives of several teenagers, set in the city of Visalia, California.[1]
Plot[edit]
The title character, Ken Park (nicknamed 'Krap Nek,' with his first and last name spelled and pronounced backward), is a teenager skateboarding across Visalia, California. He arrives at a skate park, which he casually sits in the middle of, sets up a camcorder, smiles, and shoots himself in the temple with a handgun. His death is used to bookend the film, which follows the lives of four other teenagers who knew him in the weeks running up to his suicide.
Shawn (James Bullard) is the most stable of the four main characters. He's polite and caring. Throughout the story, he has an ongoing sexual relationship with his girlfriend's mother, Rhonda. He casually socializes with her family, all of which is completely unaware of the affair, including her husband and his girlfriend, Hannah.
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Claude fends off physical and emotional abuse from his alcoholic father while he tries to take care of his neglectful pregnant mother, who never does anything to defend him. Claude's father detests him for not being masculine enough. However, after he comes home drunk one night, he attempts to perform oral sex on Claude, which prompts the boy to run away from home.
Peaches is a girl who lives alone with her obsessive and overly-religious father, who fixates on her as the embodiment of her deceased mother. When her father catches her and her boyfriend, Curtis, on her bed when they are about to have sex, he beats the boy and savagely disciplines her, including forcing her to participate in a quasi-incestuous wedding ritual with him.
Tate is an unstable and sadistic adolescent living with his grandparents, whom he resents and frequently abuses verbally. He is shown engaging in autoerotic asphyxiation during masturbation. He eventually kills his grandparents in their bed, in retaliation for his grandfather 'cheating' at Scrabble and his grandmother for 'invading his privacy.' He finds that the act arouses him sexually. He records himself on his tape recorder so that the police will know how and why he killed his grandparents. After finishing recording, he puts his grandfather's dentures in his mouth, lies naked in his bed, and falls asleep.
The film cuts frequently between subplots, with no overlap of characters or events until the end. As Tate is arrested for his grandparents' murder, Shawn, Claude, and Peaches meet and have sex as a threesome, while Gary Stewart plays. There is no explanation as to how the characters met other than alluding to them all being friends of Ken Park, but they are never seen at any point before the event in which they meet one another or Ken Park. The ending finally reveals the motive behind Ken Park's suicide. He has impregnated his girlfriend, who responds to his question that asked if she wanted to keep it by asking if he wishes he had been aborted himself. Realizing that he had rather never have been born, he sets out to the skate park to kill himself.
Cast[edit]
- Tiffany Limos as Peaches
- James Bullard as Shawn
- Stephen Jasso as Claude
- James Ransone as Tate
- Adam Chubbuck as Ken Park
- Maeve Quinlan as Rhonda
- Bill Fagerbakke as Bob
- Eddie Daniels as Shawn's mother
- Seth Gray as Shawn's brother
- Patricia Place as Tate's grandmother
- Harrison Young as Tate's grandfather
- Amanda Plummer as Claude's mother
- Wade Williams as Claude's father
- Julio Oscar Mechoso as Peaches' father
- Zara McDowell as Zoe
- Mike Apaletegui as Curtis
- Richard Riehle as Murph
- Larry Clark as Hot dog vendor
Production[edit]
Clark attempted to write the first script for Ken Park, basing it on personal experiences and people with whom he had grown up. Dissatisfied with his own draft, he hired Harmony Korine to pen the screenplay. Clark ultimately used most of Korine's script, but rewrote the ending.[citation needed] The film was given a $1.3 million budget. The arrangement was to film using digital video, but Clark and Lachman used 35mm film instead.[2][3]
Distribution[edit]
Although it was sold for distribution to some 30 countries,[4] the film was not shown in the United Kingdom after director Larry Clark assaulted Hamish McAlpine, the head of the UK distributor for the film, Metro Tartan. Clark is alleged to have been angry over McAlpine's remarks about 9/11. Clark was arrested and spent several hours in custody, and McAlpine was left with a broken nose.[5][6] The film has not been released in the United States since its initial showing at the Telluride Film Festival in 2002. Clark says that this is because of the producer's failure to get copyright releases for the music used.[7] The film was banned in Australia due to its graphic sexual content and portrayals of underage sexual activity after it was refused a classification by the Australian Classification Board on June 6, 2003. A protest screening held in Sydney, hosted by esteemed film critic Margaret Pomeranz, was shut down by the police. The film remains banned in Australia to this day.
Critical reception[edit]
Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 43% approval rating based on 14 reviews.[8]
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^What Culture#6; Ken Park (2001)
- ^Macnab, Geoffrey; Swart, Sharon (2013). FilmCraft: Producing(Ebook). Taylor & Francis. ISBN9781136071171. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- ^'Ken Park (2002) Technical Specifications'. IMDB. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- ^Police quiz critic after raid By Kirsty Needham, The Age, July 4, 2003. Accessed May 30, 2007
- ^Article in the BBC Collective
- ^'Too much verité...'The Observer. November 17, 2002. Retrieved October 20, 2015.
- ^'The Nerve Interview: Larry Clark'. Nerve. 2006-09-20. Archived from the original on 2013-12-27.
- ^'Ken Park (2002)'. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
External links[edit]
- Ken Park at AllMovie
- Ken Park at Box Office Mojo
- Ken Park on IMDb
- Ken Park at Rotten Tomatoes