Though Ken Park played at such festivals as Toronto and Telluride in the fall of 2002, it would languish on the shelf for months and months afterward, as its explicit content made finding a U.S. Washington appeared mainly in crime drama type of television shows in the 1960s and 1970s. He replaced Ivan Dixon for the sixth and final season for the American sitcom, Hogans Heroes. Meanwhile, the vapid Shawn (James Bullard) occasionally trades verbal spars with his mother, in between leaving the house for sex sessions with his girlfriend's mom.įinally there is Peaches (Tiffany Limos), living alone with her devoutly religious father as she covertly experiments with her boyfriend (Mike Apaletegui). Kenneth Washington (born October 19, 1946) is an American actor. Four young Californians of Visalia, after the suicide of Ken. The audience is introduced to Tate (James Ransome), a young man living in relative misery with his board-game-playing grandparents.Īlso tormented by his living situation is Claude (Stephen Jasso), a quiet, shy teen constantly henpecked by his brutish father (Wade Andrew Williams). Ken Park is an American film by Larry Clark and Edward Lachman, released in 2002. Ken Park takes its name from the skate park where an ancillary character takes his own life in the film's opening moments, and then proceeds to chronicle the somewhat-interrelated lives of his classmates.
It is his fifth film, after Kids, Another Day in Paradise, Bully and Teenage Caveman, and his first to be written by Harmony Korine since Kids.
Filmmaker Larry Clark reunites with Kids screenwriter Harmony Korine, with some additional directorial assistance from cinematographer Ed Lachman, for this look at a group of troubled teens and their guardians living in Southern California. Ken Park is a controversial 2002 American/Dutch/French drama film directed by Larry Clark.