Peaches (Tiffany Limos) is a girl living alone with her extremely religious father (Julio Oscar Mechoso), who fixates on her as the embodiment of her deceased mother. Claude's father detests him for being insufficiently manly, but after coming home drunk one night, he attempts to perform oral sex on him, causing Claude to run away from home.

Claude (Stephen Jasso) is a troubled teen who fends off physical and emotional abuse from his alcoholic father while trying to take care of his very pregnant mother, who never does anything to defend him (mostly because she is used to the abuse that Claude's father inflicts upon her and Claude). He casually socializes with their family, who (including his girlfriend) are completely unaware of the situation and they never find out about him and Rhonda. He has an ongoing sexual relationship with his girlfriend (Zara Mcdowell)'s mother, Rhonda (Maeve Quinlan), throughout the story. Shawn (James Bullard) is the most stable of the four main characters. His death is used to set up the rest of the film, which follows the lives of four other teens he used to hang out with, shortly after the suicide. He arrives at a skate park, where he casually sits in the middle of it, sets up a camcorder, and shoots himself in the head with a handgun. In the opening scene, teenager Ken Park (Adam Chubbuck) is seen skateboarding across Visalia.There doesn't seem to be any thought, beyond the voyeuristic tendancies of the film makers, in this movie at all.The synopsis below may give away important plot points. Clark responded by saying that he wanted to deal with teenage suicide in the movie, which is fine, but just showing someone shoot themselves in the head is not dealing with teenage suicide. At the film festival Clark answered a question about the inclusion of the character of Ken Park, who seemed to exist for no real reason other than to begin the film with a suicide. This film would be boundry pushing if it was able to contextualize the behaviour and not just put it on a screen. They are in no way representative of a real person as this film tries to convince us. It seems as though Larry Clark's ideas for characters were just him thinking he wanted to push the limits of sex on film, and so that's what the characters are doing. The movie is not interesting in the least.

There's nothing less interesting than watching a movie that is based on the premise of Let's Make People Accept Something New.

I have no problems with the explicit content in the film, go ahead and show whatever you like, just do it for a reason other than to push the boundries.

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