Take an Oscar-winning screen veteran. Match him with a teen star from Nickelodeon. Who do you think comes out on top? If it's Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck and The Wackness we're talking about, the answer ...

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first film, but it feels like it, with its emphasis on coming-of-age at a specific time in a specific place: Subject matter that has fueled more than a couple of debut novels and movies. It's set in ...

Ben Kingsley and Josh Peck start a beautiful -- but strange -- relationship in 'The Wackness.' Quiz: Would you describe the new, buzz-generating dramatic-comedy "The Wackness" as a film starring Ben ...

Pretty Olivia Thirlby is something of the straight arrow of the film; the girl of Luke’s dreams but someone with the least interesting lines and little growth. Josh Peck makes the film matter as Luke, ...

One of the worst things you can say to a teenager is, “These are the best years of your life.” If for nothing else, screenwriter-director Jonathan Levine’s The Wackness deserves points for ...

Jonathan Levine, whose coming-of-age dramedy "The Wackness" took home an audience award at the recent Los Angeles Film Festival, has set up two new projects. By Steven Zeitchik, The Associated Press ...

Jonathan Levine, whose coming-of-age dramedy "The Wackness" took home an audience award at the recent Los Angeles Film Festival, has set up two new projects. By Steven Zeitchik, The Associated Press ...