Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 11/21/2006
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2/DD5.1
Run Time: 100 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: First Look Pictures
Photographer and filmmaker
Larry Clark offers another look at the inner workings of urban youth culture in this
comedy drama.
Jonathan (
Jonathan Velasquez) is a teenaged El Salvadorian refugee living in a primarily Mexican-American and African-American neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles.
Jonathan and a handful of fellow Salvadorian émigrés who are his best friends stand out like sore thumbs on the block, due less to their national origin than because they've rejected the
hip-hop music and fashion around them in favor of old-school
punk, as favored by
the Ramones and latter-day Latino bands such as
Suicidal Tendencies.
Jonathan and his pals
Kiko (
Francisco Pedrasa),
Eddie (
Eddie Velasquez),
Porky (
Usvaldo Panameno), and
Spermball (
Milton Velasquez) have a group of their own, and
Jonathan, a sweet but streetwise kid who has a way with the girls, is the lead singer. Like all good punk rockers,
Jonathan and his bandmates are seriously into skateboarding, and one day they hop several busses and make a pilgrimage to a legendary skate spot in Beverly Hills. If the kids felt like outsiders in South Central, they soon discover they're unwelcome outcasts in the moneyed L.A. suburbs; before long they're on the run from cops as well as Anglo skaters, and even
Jonathan's chance assignation with a neighborhood sexpot leads to no small share of drama.
Wassup Rockers received its world premiere at the 2005
Toronto Film Festival.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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