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Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Drama
Release Year: 2008
Country: USA
Runtime: 99
Rating: 4.7 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Jonathan Levine
Sound: Dolby Digital, SDDS
Taglines:

Sometimes its right to do the wrong things.

Summer 1994. The girls were fly. The music was dope. And Luke was just trying to deal.

Writing by: Jonathan Levine - (written by)

Produced by: Keith Calder - producer
Jared Goldman - line producer
Felipe Marino - producer
Joe Neurauter - producer
Brian Udovich - co-producer

Cast: Ben Kingsley - Dr. Squires
Famke Janssen - Kristin Squires
Josh Peck - Luke Shapiro
Olivia Thirlby - Stephanie
Mary-Kate Olsen - Union
Jane Adams - Elanor
Method Man - Percy
Aaron Yoo - Justin
Talia Balsam - Mrs. Shapiro
David Wohl - Mr. Shapiro
Bob Dishy - Grandpa Shapiro

Music: David Torn
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Plot Outline: Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.
Plot: Its the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip-hop. Set against this backdrop, a lonely teenager named Luke Shapiro spends his last summer before university selling marijuana throughout New York City, trading it with his unorthodox psychotherapist for treatment, while having a crush on his stepdaughter.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
When the Sony Pictures Classics logo appears at the very beginning and at the very end of the film, the word "classics" is erased and replaced with a graffiti rendering of the same word.

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Miscellaneous: During the end credits, when listing Olivia Thirlbys stand-in, Thirlby is incorrectly spelled as "Thirby."

Trivia: There are 25 entries in the trivia list - like these:

All of the amateur actors were recruited from favelas (slums) in Rio de Janeiro, and a couple of them - eg. Buscap?/Rocket (Alexandre Rodrigues) - actually lived in the Cidade de Deus (City of God) itself.
When Knockout Ned (Man? Galinha in the Brazilian original) kills someone for the first time, some people who live in the City of God approach him and congratulate him for the killing. The first woman to talk to him was played by the mother of the real Knockout Ned.
The director was once quoted as saying that if he knew the dangers of filming the movie in a Rio favela, he wouldnt have done the movie.