The Wackness, the 1990s coming-of-age tale starring Josh Peck, Olivia Thrilby, Ben Kingsley, Famke Janssen and Mary-Kate Olsen will be available on DVD and Blu-Ray on January 6th!

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The Wackness is about Luke Shapiro, a teenager who takes on a different kind of summer job and his adventures with his shrink and his quest to woo the girl of his dreams, Stephanie. Mary-Kate plays a hippie named Union, who is one of Luke’s customers.

The DVD will feature deleted scenes, two mini-documentaries- “Keeping it Real” which looks at a day in the life of writer/director Jonathan Levine, and “Time in a Bottle” which looks at the behind the scenes happening on the set of The Wackness, the first episode of “The Luke Shapiro Show” and commentary from Jonathan Levine and star Josh Peck.

The DVD is currently available to pre-order for $21.99 from Amazon.

In honor of the Irish premiere of The Wackness, starring Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck, Olivia Thirlby and Mary-Kate Olsen, Movies.ie interviewed Mary-Kate about her experience filming the movie. They chat about working with Ben Kingsley, MK’s infamous kissing scene, being constantly followed by the paparazzi, and where she sees her career going.

I love this quote about her professional limits. When asked what MK would and would not do for her career:

“I’m never going on the cover of Maxim - at all!” she said. “I only go along with what I am comfortable with.”

There isn’t anything new in the interview, but it’s good to see that Mary-Kate is dedicated to the marketing of the film. She’s serious about her acting career and tirelessly working to promote herself and her movies will only do her good.

You can read the interview for yourself here.

The Wackness premieres in Ireland on August 29.

Mary-Kate Olsen is only in The Wackness for nine minutes. She’s featured in two scenes and in both scenes, her character, Union, is stoned out of her mind. I think MK did a great job in her role, but I think it’s weird that the media and the studio hyped her perfomance in the film so much and she’s in it so little.

The video below is her first scene in the film. It’s early in the movie and Stephanie, Luke’s love interest, just found out that Luke is a dealer. MK is one of his regular clients.

The video below is her second, and final, scene in the film. This scene is much longer and it’s the infamous bar scene wherein she makes out with Ben Kingsley’s character.

What do you think of Mary-Kate’s performance? What sort of role do you think she should take on next?

According to the Wall Street Journal, Mary-Kate Olsen auditioned for the lead female role, Stephanie. Stephanie is Luke’s love interest in the film. Ultimately, that role was given to Olivia Thirlby.

Olivia is a great actress. She’s also starred in Juno with Ellen Page and United 93. I’m excited to see what she’ll do with The Wackness.

As we all know, it ended well for MK. She was cast as drug user and hippie Union.

The Wackness will be in theatres on July 3.

Image used with permission from Sony Pictures Classics.

Sony Pictures Classics released the official movie poster for The Wackness. It’s very similar to the promotional poster they had for Sundance.

The movie will open on July 3rd. Thanks to Cinematical for the poster!

Here is a short clip from The Wackness. It’s a short scene with Mary-Kate Olsen. She’s pretty good in it, I think!

Thanks to jj for the tip!

Here is a new trailer for The Wackness starring Mary-Kate Olsen, Ben Kingsley and Josh Peck.

Mary-Kate is only in the trailer briefly, but I think it’s nice they include her, especially considering how small people say her part is.

Are you planning on seeing this movie?

Mary-Kate Olsen wore a simple but chic all-black number to the Chanel Dinner at Ago at the Greenwich Hotel during the Tribeca Film Festival on Monday night. What do you think? Is her outfit a winner?

The event also had a Q&A session for the stars of the various films in the festival. During the Q&A for The Wackness Ben Kingsley praised MK and called her a great role model for her generation.

Image details: Chanel Tribeca Film Festival Dinner - Arrivals served by picapp.com

More photos after the jump!

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Cinematical has a bunch of new stills from Mary-Kate Olsen’s latest film, The Wackness, which also stars Ben Kingsley and Josh Peck. MK herself is only in one image, it’s with Ben, but the pics themselves are still cool to see.

The movie is supposed to hit theaters early this summer!

See the pictures here.

Thanks to The Playlist we have the list of songs featured in the movie The Wackness starring Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck and Mary-Kate Olsen.

They are:

Music featured in “The Wackness” film.
Nas - “The World Is Yours”
Raewkon “Heaven and Hell”
Notorious B.I.G. feat. Method Man “The What”
DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince “Summertime”
Donovan - “Season of The Witch”
Biz Markie - “Just A Friend”
Total feat. Notorious B.I.G. “Can’t Ya See”
A Tribe Called Quest - “Can I Kick It”
Faith Evans - “You Used To Love Me”
R Kelly - “Bump N’ Grind”
The Pioneers - “Long Shot Kick de Buckettfont”
Vomit Launch “Exit Lines”
Craig Mack - “Flava In Your Ear”
The Wu Tang Clan - “Tearz”
Mott The Hoople - “All The Young Dudes”

The soundtrack will be released close to the film’s release (around July 3).

For more information on the music in The Wackness, read the full article at the Playlist.