All he cared about was gleaming the cube...until the night they killed his brother.
An Orange County teenager's carefree life of ditching class and skateboarding abandoned pools comes to a screeching halt when someone close to him dies. The cops rule the death a suicide, but the bereaved skater believes he was murdered. It's up to him to solve the case, with a skateboard.
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- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
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- GenerationofSwineon TMDB · Jan 202310/10
Yeah, it's not the best movie. It could actually be a lot better... but it is entertaining as all.... heck? Even if you aren't hip to the whole skater thing, this is a seriously fun movie to watch in the cheap 80s action/adventure kind of way. It has a compelling enough police drama vide, even if most of the action is centered around skateboarding... which is also fun to watch. I honestly think a lot of the distaste comes from the fact that it is capitalizing on what was, in the 80s, seen as a passing fad. But the story is still solid for what it is. It has a good message about family ties. It has actual character growth. The story is something that Hollywood has forgotten to do lately, make a compelling narrative. But this somehow manages to accomplish that and still, you know, exploit the skater phenomenon that was sweeping the nation at the time.
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Cast
- Christian SlaterBrian Kelly
- Steven BauerAl Lucero
- Richard HerdEd Lawndale
- Ed LauterMr. Kelly
- Le TuanColonel Trac
- Peter KwongBobby Nguyen
- Charles CyphersHarvey McGill
- Micole MercurioMrs. Kelly
- Min LuongTina Trac
- Art ChudabalaVinh Kelly
Crew
- Graeme CliffordDirector
- Michael TolkinWriter
- Reed SmootDirector of Photography
- Jay FergusonOriginal Music Composer
- John WrightEditor
- David FosterProducer
- Lawrence TurmanProducer
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