Drama

Ken Park (2002): Cast, Box Office & Plot

Name: Ken Park
Genre: Drama
Released: 2002-08-31
Duration: 1 h 37 min
Cast: Adam Chubbuck, James Ransone, James Bullard, Stephen Jasso, Tiffany Limos

Ken Park is a 2002 drama directed by Larry Clark and Edward Lachman, starring Adam Chubbuck as Ken Park, James Ransone and James Bullard. It runs 1 hour 37 minutes and earned $1.1 million worldwide.

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Released: August 31, 2002
Runtime: 1h 37m (97 min)
Directors: Larry Clark and Edward Lachman
Genre: Drama
Original language: English
Studio: Cinéa
After the credits: No No extra scene

The story

What Is Ken Park About?

The premise of Ken Park without spoilers. The whole story is in the plot summary further down.

Ken Park follows adolescents in troubled homes. Shawn appears conventional, while Tate erupts with near‑psychotic rage. Claude suffers abuse from his brutish father and uneasy pampering by his heavily pregnant mother. Peaches tends to her devoutly religious father yet craves independence, and each insists they’re tightly knit despite dysfunction.

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Cast & crew

Ken Park Cast & Characters

Adam Chubbuck leads the cast as Ken Park, with James Ransone as Tate and James Bullard as Shawn. Directed by Larry Clark and Edward Lachman; 26 actors are credited in all.

Co-director Larry Clark
Co-director Edward Lachman

Adam Chubbuck as Ken Park
James Ransone as Tate
James Bullard as Shawn
Stephen Jasso as Claude

Also Starring in Ken Park

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Tiffany Limos Peaches
Maeve Quinlan Rhonda
Shanie Calahan Hannah
Mike Apaletegui Curtis
Harrison Young Tate's Grandfather
Patricia Place Tate's Grandmother
Richard Riehle Murph
Amanda Plummer Claude's Mother
Bill Fagerbakke Bob
Wade Williams Claude's Father
Julio Oscar Mechoso Peaches' Father
Eddie Daniels Shawn's Mother
Luna Legs
Chelsey Earlywine Hannah's Girlfirend
Ashley Crisp Rebekah
Zara McDowell Zoe

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Lazavier James Rebekah's Friend
Daniel Helwick Friend #1
Gabe Nava Friend #2
Sam Baptista Friend #3
Caroline Kristiahn Prostitutde
Loranne Maze Ken Park's Girlfriend

From the directors

More from Larry Clark and Edward Lachman

More films directed by Larry Clark and Edward Lachman, best-rated first: Kids, Wassup Rockers, Bully and Marfa Girl.

Plot

Ken Park Plot Summary

What happens in Ken Park from start to finish, spoilers included, with a timeline of 13 key events. The opening is below; the full summary is a 3-minute read.

Spoilers ahead

Ken Park (played by Adam Chubbuck) is the title character, a teenager skating through Visalia, California, whose death opens and closes the film to bookend the story. The movie follows four other teenagers who knew him, weaving separate, raw portraits of their lives before they intersect in the final act. The tone stays observational and unflinching, presenting a mosaic of adolescence marked by fragility, rebellion, and quiet desperation.

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