Hip-Hop appreciation is also at the heart of Jonathan Levine’s The Wackness. Set in 1994 Giuliani-era New York, its nostalgia for adolescence is made moving by Levine’s unabashed appropriation of hip-hop. His alter-ego protagonist Luke (Josh Peck) is obsessed with hip-hop as an alternative to Kurt Cobain. For a friendless, pot-selling, romantic Jewish kid from the Upper East Side, black pop becomes the ultimate expression of his alienation.
The soundtrack is sublime, peep:
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