Ken Park

Ken Park is a 2002 film adapted by Harmony Korine from stories by Larry Clark. It was directed by Larry Clark and Edward Lachman. It stars James Ransone, Tiffany Limos, Stephen Jasso and James Bullard.

The movie revolves around the abusive home lives of several teenage skateboarders. Even though these kids hang out together at the skateboard park, they never interact in their outside lives. It's a story of violence and alienation.

Teenagers played by young adults: Peaches (Tiffany Limos), Tate (James Ransone), Claude (Stephen Jasso) and Shawn (James Bullard). It contains some explicit sexual behavior (Clark:"I decided that I wasnÃÂÃÂt going to turn the camera away, or shut the door, or shoot from the waist up."). It takes place in the rural town of Visalia, California; it portrays suicide, murder, parental violence, alcoholism, smoking cannabis, skateboarding, weight-lifting, incestuous sexual assault by a homophobic father of his sleeping son, BDSM, solo strangling sex, religious fanaticism, a fake marriage of a father with his daughter, a boy having sex with his girlfriend's mother, with at the end an idyllic sex scene with two of the boys and the girl.

The movie has never been issued in wide release in the United States, it has not found a distributor since its initial showing at the Telluride Film Festival in 2002. It has been banned in Australia for its violence and sexual content; the ban has been controversial: there has been an illegal showing of the film as a protest, after which police arrived at the scene to stop the filming.