Wassup Rockers

Infobox Film | name = Wassup Rockers

caption = A screenshot from the film
director = Larry Clark
producer = Larry Clark
Kevin Turen
Henry Winterstern
writer = Larry Clark
Matthew Frost
starring =Jonathan Velasquez
Francisco Pedrasa
Milton Velasquez
Yunior Usualdo Panameno
Eddie Velasquez
Luis Rojas-Salgado
Carlos Velasco
music =
cinematography = Steve Gainer
editing = Alex Blatt
distributor =
released = June 23, 2006 New York, U.S. release
runtime = 111 min
language = English, Spanish
budget =
imdb_id = 0413466

"Wassup Rockers" was a film directed by Larry Clark released in 2005.

ummary

"Wassup Rockers" is about a group of Mexican-American teenagers in South Central 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 Rockers decide to travel by bus to skate the world famous "Nine Stairs" at Beverly Hills High School. There they meet some local girls, attracted to the "punks" from the ghetto, but the day quickly goes bad as they're hassled by rich boys from the neighborhood and rousted by the Beverly Hills Police. Trying to escape arrest by the cops and fights with the local kids, the Rockers run from house to house and yard to yard in this wealthy and foreign world, looking for a way to get home.

Critical response

Film critic Roger Ebert gave "Wassup Rockers" a "thumbs up" rating on the June 25, 2006 broadcast of 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."

Trivia

* Janice Dickinson makes an appearance in the film as a rich alcoholic divorcee who helps LOS ROCKERS.
* Fashion designer Jeremy Scott appears in the film as a gay photographer.

ee also

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

External links

* [http://www.myspace.com/wassuprockersfilm The "Wassup Rockers" official myspace]
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