Clip A Guide to the Films of Catherine Hardwicke. Photos Top cast Edit. Heath Ledger Skip as Skip. Emile Hirsch Jay as Jay. Victor Rasuk Tony as Tony. John Robinson Stacy as Stacy. Rebecca De Mornay Philaine as Philaine. William Mapother Donnie as Donnie. Julio Oscar Mechoso Mr. Alva as Mr. Vincent Laresca Chino as Chino. Brian Zarate Montoya as Montoya.
Pablo Schreiber Stecyk as Stecyk. Michael Angarano Sid as Sid. Benjamin Nurick Browser as Browser. Catherine Hardwicke. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. A fictionalized take on the group of brilliant young skateboarders raised in the mean streets of Dogtown in Santa Monica, California. Emile Hirsch, Heath Ledger, Credit: Lords of Dogtown: Jaimie Trueblood.
All rights reserved. Close this dialog window View image Lords of Dogtown. The young members of the Zephyr Team, sponsored by a permanently stoned surfboard store owner, revolutionized the sport, performing acrobatics and crazy stunts on skateboards that had until then been seen as fancy scooters. They became famous, they made a lot of money, they grew up, and one of them, Stacy Peralta , made a documentary about them named " Dogtown and Z-Boys. It was a good documentary. As I wrote at the time, it answers a question I have long been curious about: How and why was the first skateboarder inspired to go aerial, to break contact with any surface and do acrobatics in mid-air?
Consider that the pioneer was doing this for the very first time over a vertical drop of perhaps 15 feet to a concrete surface. It's not the sort of thing you try out of idle curiosity. Now we have "Lords of Dogtown," a fiction film based on the very same material and indeed written by Peralta. Not only is there no need for this movie, but its weaknesses underline the strength of the doc. How and why Peralta found so much old footage of skateboarding in is a mystery, but he was able to give us a good sense of those kids at that time.
Although Catherine Hardwicke , the director of "Lords of Dogtown," has a good sense for the period and does what she can with her actors, we've seen the originals, and these aren't the originals. Nobody in the fiction film pulls off stunts as spectacular as those we see for real in the documentary. The story line remains the same. The kids live in what was then one of the remaining beachfront slums, down the coast from the expensive Malibu area. The beach was ruled by surfers, but in the afternoon, when the waves died down, some of the surfers, or their younger brothers, fooled around on skateboards.
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Lords of Dogtown. Portrait of Venice, CA, '70s teen skater culture. PG minutes. Rate movie. Watch or buy. Based on 2 reviews. Based on 7 reviews. Get it now Searching for streaming and purchasing options
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