the Wack, Dope 90s

I have always had a sick love for Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen. I can even still recite some of their songs from The Case of Thorn Mansion and You're Invited to Mary Kate and Ashley's Birthday Party! Disgusting right, no what's disgusting is that I drove to Lincoln to see a movie where Mary Kate has a 3-scene stint as Union, a mushroom tripping, ecstasy radiating sex pot.
Set in 1994, Jonathan Levine's The Wackness is a story about the foggy existance of a pot-dealing teenager, Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck), struggling with love and depression in the summer after his high school graduation.

Shapiro, constantly plugged into his walkman listening to Notorious B.I.G and the like, is suprisingly a loner considering his music taste and job title (all the pot dealers I knew in high school were extremely social people). Shapiro trades pot for time with his shrink, Dr. Squires (Ben Kingsley), who tells him that all men need to have sex and encourages Shapiro to get laid.

Shapiro, who hasn't really had sex before but is "not a virgin!" desperately wants to get with his shrink's step-daughter, Stephanie (Olivia Thirlby). When Stephanie's hot (Ray-Ban wearing) Asian boyfriend, Justin (Aaron Yoo), leaves for the summer she decides to humor Shapiro coaching him through their (his) pathetic attempts at making love, ditching him on Fire Island after Shapiro drops the Love bomb.
The Wackness was worth seeing just for the soundtrack and seeing MK on the big screen, but what fascinated me most was Stephanie's power in deciding when she was through with Shapiro. The stereotype is too often the reverse. It's truly a women's world, and it's about time.
Mary Kate would know.