Jonathan Levine


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  • Biography: Jonathan Levine is an American film director. He won the Audience Award at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival for his film The Wackness.

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Jonathan Levine (writer/director of The Wackness ) is set to direct The Sitter for Fox Atomic. According to The Hollywood Reporter , the irreverent comedy will harken back to 1987's Adventures In Babysitting . ... Full Article

The Wackness is coming-of-age drama by way of stoner film, and if that sounds like it shouldn't work at all... well, I'm tempted to agree. ... Full Article

What inspirations from your youth drove you to this project?Finding the distance as a director, to interpret one's own script, is always challenging.There were lots of logistical challenges as well, from shooting on location in New York. ... Full Article

The film is set in the hip hop culture of New York City in 1994 -- where everyone says things like "word" and "fo' real" -- and follows a pot dealer called Luke (Josh Peck) who's having something of a... ... Full Article

I wanted to see Senator's MANDY LANE when she was young and sexy, not an old hag. Some interesting news was sent to us this morning by B-D regular Joey M. who pointed us to a website that had some... ... Full Article

Films
independent.co.uk2008-08-29
The writer-director Jonathan Levine has reeled back to his high-school graduation year in The Wackness. This bittersweet odd-couple comedy bids a fond adieu to the hip-hop summer of 1994, when Mayor Giuliani was bent on cleaning up Manhattan and would-be... ... Full Article

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