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Synopsis: The teenager and skateboarder Alex is interviewed by Detective Richard Lu that is investigating the death of a security guard in the rail yards severed by a train who was apparently hit by a skate board. While dealing with the separation process of his parents and the sexual heat of his virgin girlfriend Jennifer, Alex writes his last experiences in Paranoid Park with his new acquaintances and how the guard was killed, trying to relieve his feeling of guilty from his conscience.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Gus Van Sant
Production: IFC First Take
  5 wins & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
83
Rotten Tomatoes:
76%
R
Year:
2007
85 min
£241,672
Website
596 Views


next to the vending machines.

I don't remember anything

that happened that night.

Were you drinking?

Yeah. I have no idea what happened.

I thought this master plan

was supposed to work.

Hey you know why that kid's getting...

arrested?

Oh, yeah. He just got like caught

for pot or something.

I don't know. He's not gonna get

a fair trial, though.

That's my corndog, man.

I'm starving.

Will the following people please report

to the principal's office?

Jared Fitch, Christian Barlow,

Paul and Alex Tremain.

Did he just call my name?

Yeah.

Dude, all the skater kids

are getting called to the office, man.

OK, this is Detective Lu.

Hello... hello... Hey, Lu Lu.

Guys.

What are those cuffs for?

Handcuffs... handcuffs.

Hey... show him some respect, please.

Show me respect.

Respect my...

All right... Thank you, uh... Miss Adams.

Damn!

Check... What you looking at? Huh?

Anyway...

Like she said my name

is Detective Richard Lu.

You can, call me Rich.

Or Lu Lu.

And, so you know, my...

partner and I are here

to investigate a murder

that occurred downtown...

near a skateboard park.

So the police department

wants us to get in touch

and make some contacts with the...

skateboard community.

And hopefully you can help us solve a...

a case that we have here.

So anyway... what I wanna do is uh...

talk to you guys and get to know ya.

Let's go ahead

and just go around the room...

I want to get to know you, too.

I want you to introduce yourselves.

Start here.

- I'm Paul Thrief.

- Paul.

Jeremy.

Eric.

- Christian.

- Christian.

- Cal.

- Cal.

Alex.

- Jared.

- Jared.

Jeremy.

Brian.

OK. Raise your hands...

if you've ever been,

to the Eastside Skateboard Park.

You know everybody's

gonna raise their hand...

But it's called Paranoid Park,

nobody calls it...

Paranoid. OK, so you all have.

OK, good, that's what I was hoping for.

Now of those who rose your hands,

who was there, at any time,

during the weekend of

September sixteenth, or seventeenth?

OK, um... Jared.

Yeah. Yeah, we uh...

Alex and I went there like...

that week... during the day, though.

During the week.

Do you remember what day that was?

Uh, I don't know. Tuesday maybe?

OK.

We actually planned to go there

that weekend but we didn't.

You didn't. So what did you do, then?

I went down to Oregon State.

OK, Corvalis. All right.

So... you went to OSU,

so you went to Paranoid Park?

No.

You did not. OK, where did you go?

I... I didn't want to go the park

by myself so... I didn't.

Yeah, no one wants to go

the Paranoid by themself, man.

That place is scary.

- I always go there.

- Yeah, true.

They only mess if you make

a mess with them. I always go there.

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Gus Green Van Sant, Jr. is an American film director, screenwriter, painter, photographer, musician and author who has earned acclaim as both an independent and more mainstream filmmaker. more…

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