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| Fries Entertainment | Release Date: August 29, 1986 |
Starring:
Brett Marx, Brooke McCarter, Chuck McCann, David Wagner, Josh Brolin, Josh Richman, Mark Munski, Pamela Gidley, Robert Rusler, Tony Alva
Summary:
Two skateboarding gangs battle each other for supremacy, and a member of one gang falls in love with the sister of his rival.
Josh Brolin and Robert Rusler star in this 1980s-era guilty pleasure that reimagines Romeo & Juliet as a war between rival skateboard gangs (yes, there used to be such a thing).
When it's just roaring along through a kaleidoscope of Los Angeles locations, the camera perched behind, above or below the skateboarding heroes and villains, the movie can be fun. It's shot in an extravagant, try-anything, music-video style. It's rattlingly paced, vibrant and splashy. Then we get to the story. Stop me if you've heard this one: Boy meets girl; boy loses girl; boy gets girl. Sound familiar? Try this for extra spice. Two warring teen-age gangs clash--the free-and-breezy Valley Guy "Ramp Locals" and the swaggering, black leather, bone-in-the-nose "Daggers."
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