MOVIE · 2007

Paranoid Park

CrimeDramaMystery85 min

After a security guard suffers a brutal death at Portland’s Paranoid Park, suspicion turns toward a teenage skateboarder who may have been there that night. Gabe Nevins is the film’s center, a high school kid moving through police questions, school life, and the isolation that follows a single terrible incident. Gus Van Sant tells the story through fragments rather than straight chronology, folding together skate footage, drifting memories, and moments that don’t line up cleanly at first. Taylor Momsen appears among the young cast around him as the investigation stays in the background and the focus tightens on guilt, uncertainty, and the way one decision keeps echoing.