Fresh
[An] intriguing, mind-altering skateboard elegy.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Paranoid Park
Could you hide a deadly secret?
2007 · 1h 25m · R
Crime, Drama
Directed by
Gus Van Sant
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Paranoid Park
Overview
A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a brutal death in a skate park called "Paranoid Park".
Director and cast
- Gus Van Sant Director
- Gabe Nevins as Alex
- Dan Liu as Detective Richard Liu
- Jake Miller as Jared
- Taylor Momsen as Jennifer
- Lauren McKinney as Macy
- Scott Patrick Green as Scratch
- John Michael Burrowes as Security Guard
- Grace Carter as Alex's Mom
- Jay 'Smay' Williamson as Alex's Dad
- Christopher Doyle as Uncle Tommy
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
76%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Paranoid Park, Gus Van Sant's mesmerizing new movie, melds the dreamy languor of his last few films with a page-turner of a plot.
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
Fresh
Gus Van Sant's capper to a trilogy of experiments in elliptical narrative and lyrical structure is a masterful triumph of art, craft and empathy for the complicatedness of being a real teenager.
Ted Fry, Seattle Times
Rotten
Regarding Paranoid Park as an elongated short rather than a feature helps a bit, because it's a miniature in spirit -- a small-format portrait of psychic malaise that just happens to last 84 minutes.
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
Fresh
Paranoid Park becomes a portrait of the skate punk as repressed personality. The movie doesn't really go anywhere as a story, it simply unfolds.
Tom Long, Detroit News
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