Ken Park (2002)

As a filmmaker, acclaimed photographer Larry Clark likes to brighten the silver screen with the same explicit views of taboo sex and decadent diversions among the disaffected young that motivated and beguiled the screwy doper kids of his most famous still pictures. Clark’s earlier cinematic travelogues into teenage angst and carnal excesses, Kids (1995) and Bully (2001), exhibited a naturalistic style of filming and acting that lent them a documentary feel and real-life edge. His 2002 film Ken Park shares the same mode of storytelling as it explores Southern California suburban screw-ups after a youth takes his life. But what distinguishes this skinematic experience from the rest of Clark’s oeuvre is that the sex scenes here feature an arousing dosing of erect dongs, blow jobs, urination and steamy threesomes. For starters, Shawn (James Bullard) fills out his white briefs while making time with a cougar just 14 minutes into the movie. A little later, he and Claude (Stephen Jasso) show their collective junk during a ménage à trois. Ooh la la! As Claude’s father, Wade Andrew Williams reveals his penis while draining his vein and downing a beer. This bud’s for you! If that’s not satisfying enough, Tate (James Ransone) goes full frontal while jerking off. Not to be outdone, Curtis (Mike Apaletegui) gets tied to the bed as his girlfriend grinds against his erection. Later, she spits in his mouth and exposes his hot rod. As you can guess, this is Clark’s most erotic film yet. And that’s saying a mouthful!