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Olivia Thirlby, Jonathan Levine ('Wackness')
Published Friday, Aug 29 2008, 18:34 BST | By Simon Reynolds
Set in the baking hot New York summer of 1994, The Wackness charts the coming of age of hip-hop loving drug dealer Luke Shapiro as he befriends eccentric shrink Dr. Squires (Sir Ben Kingsley) and falls in love with the free-spirited Stephanie (Olivia Thirlby). Over the course of the film, Luke learns a few valuable life lessons from Squires and discovers that teenage romance isn't all that it's cracked up to be.
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Digital Spy caught up with Olivia and writer/director Jonathan Levine to chat about working with Sir Ben Kingsley, revisiting '90s Manhattan and the difference between "wackness" and "dopeness".
This movie interview is brought to you in association with Film24, available on Sky channel 157.
> Click here for our review of the film
Digital Spy caught up with Olivia and writer/director Jonathan Levine to chat about working with Sir Ben Kingsley, revisiting '90s Manhattan and the difference between "wackness" and "dopeness".
This movie interview is brought to you in association with Film24, available on Sky channel 157.
