Ken Park (2003)

Teen skater Ken Park (nicknamed Krap Nek; his name spelled and pronounced backward) kills himself at a Visalia skate park; his death bookends the lives of four other young people who knew him: Shawn, the most conventional; Tate brims with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother; and Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim.

Genres: Drama, Thriller

What to watch after Ken Park

• Wassup Rockers (2005) — Larry Clark directed both
• Paranoid Park (2007) — Two steps away in the credits
• Julien Donkey-Boy (1999) — Same subject: abusive father
• Another Day in Paradise (1998) — Same feel: dark, disturbing
• Bully (2001) — Same feel: dark, disturbing
• The House on the Edge of the Park (1980)