Wassup Rockers

Wassup Rockers
Directed by	Larry Clark
Written by	Larry Clark Matthew Frost
Produced by	Larry Clark Kevin Turen Henry Winterstern
Starring	Jonathan Velasquez Francisco Pedrasa Milton Velasquez Yunior Usualdo Panameno Eddie Velasquez Luis Rojas-Salgado Carlos Velasco
Cinematography	Steve Gainer
Edited by	Alex Blatt
Release dates	September 12, 2005 (2005-09-12) (Toronto Film Festival) June 23, 2006 (2006-06-23) (United States)
Running time	111 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	English Spanish
Box office	$634,074[1]

Wassup Rockers is a 2005 film directed by Larry Clark.

Plot[]

Wassup Rockers is about a group of Guatemalan American and Salvadoran American teenagers in South Los Angeles who, instead of conforming to the hip hop culture of their gang-infested neighborhood, wear tight pants, listen to punk rock, and ride skateboards. Avoiding the violence of their dangerous home turf is an everyday challenge. The climax of the film occurs out on a skate-ride around Beverly Hills, California. Racial tension fumes the air of Beverly Hills as the pack of skaters effortlessly manages to coincidentally run into trouble. Janice Dickinson makes an appearance in the film as a rich alcoholic divorcee and former soap opera actress whose Spanish-speaking maid helps Los Rockers. Fashion designer Jeremy Scott appears as a photographer.

Critical response[]

Film critic Roger Ebert gave Wassup Rockers a "thumbs up" rating on the television show Ebert & Roeper. But his co-host, Richard Roeper, gave the movie a "thumbs (way) down", emphasizing Larry Clark's apparent fascination with shirtless, adolescent males. Roeper argued, "When a colleague told me I was about to see a new film from Larry Clark, the director of Bully and Kids, I said, 'I wonder how many scenes will pass before we get shirtless teenage boys?' That's one of Clark's rather disturbing obsessions."

See also[]

• Kids (1995, Larry Clark)
• Bully (2001, Larry Clark)
• Ken Park (2002, Larry Clark)

References[]

External links[]

• Wassup Rockers at IMDb
• Wassup Rockers at Rotten Tomatoes

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