Paranoid Park (2007) on Netflix
Alex, a sixteen-year-old skateboarder in Portland, Oregon, rides a freight train with a man he meets at the park known as Paranoid Park. A security guard is killed in the rail yards.
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- IMDb6.6/1033,186 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes77%
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Plot summary
Alex is a sixteen-year-old who skateboards in Portland, Oregon. At the Eastside Skatepark, which skaters call Paranoid Park, he meets a man named Scratch. The two hop a freight train. A security guard spots them and gives chase, striking Scratch with his flashlight. Alex swings his skateboard at the guard, who loses his balance and falls onto another track, where a freight train hits him. Alex then gets rid of his skateboard and the clothes he wore.
Cast
- Jake Milleras Jared
- John Michael Burrowesas Security Guard (as John 'Mike' Burrowes)
- Grace Carteras Alex's Mom
- Jay 'Smay' Williamsonas Alex's Dad
- Dillon Hinesas Henry
- Emma Nevinsas Paisley
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Paranoid Park (2007)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Gabe Nevins had never acted before; he heard about the casting call from a skateboard store and originally auditioned as an extra. He was cast in the lead role, which he says was based on the innocence Van Sant believed trained actors to be lacking.
- Scenes at the fictional Eastside Skatepark were filmed at Portland's Burnside Skatepark which, like Eastside, was built illegally by skateboarders and only afterwards approved by the city as a public skatepark.
- The skateboarding sequences were shot on Super 8 mm film, a medium commonly used in skate videos, while the remainder of the film was shot on 35mm, Van Sant's medium of choice.
