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81
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80
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54
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52
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48
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45
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42
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42
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40
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40
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38
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36
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35
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28
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28
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22
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18
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16
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xx
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Dogtown and Z-Boys
Sony Pictures Classics
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for language and some drug references
Starring
Sean Penn (narrator),
Jay Adams,
Tony Alva,
Bob Biniak,
Paul Constantineau,
Shogo Kubo,
Jim Muir,
and
Peggy Oki
This documentary tells the true story of how kids living in Santa Monica, CA in the 1970's brought their surfing styles into skateboarding and revolutionized the sport.
| GENRE(S): |
Documentary
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Stacy Peralta
Craig Stecyk
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Stacy Peralta
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 6, 2002
Video: August 6, 2002
Theatrical: April 26, 2002
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| RUNNING TIME: |
89 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
Audience Award for Best Documentary (tie), Director's Award - Documentary, 2001 Sundance Film Festival; Best Documentary, 2002 Independent Spirit Awards; Best Documentary, IFP

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
An improbably bountiful subject -- kids on skateboards turning themselves into virtuoso artist-athletes -- has been brought to life in a wonderful, unpretentious documentary.
91
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
A dazzlingly crafted documentary about the teenage surf punks of lower Los Angeles who singlehandedly transformed skateboarding into the extreme sport it has become.

91
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
This collision of skate punk and pop-culture archaeology is the most entertaining slice of cultural history I've seen in years.

90
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
So much fun that its considerable worth as history and sociology seems almost incidental.

90
Chicago Reader
Meredith Brody
Propulsive and highly satisfying documentary.

90
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Do yourself a favor. Just go see it.

90
LA Weekly
Manohla Dargis
Enormously enjoyable, high-adrenaline documentary.

90
Washington Post
Curt Fields
Using home movies, photos, a brilliant soundtrack and candid, articulate interviews, director Stacy Peralta (one of the original Z-boys) details the birth of a pop culture phenomenon.

89
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
That they were just hormonally blitzkrieged kids at the time, unaware of their role in history, only makes Peralta's superior doc that much more winning.

88
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Raucous look at an equally raucous phenomenon.

88
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
There's great action moviemaking here: You learn what it means to "carve" a pool, as you learn what it means to "close off" the boxing ring in Ali.

88
Boston Globe
Jonathan Perry
Does a terrific job of evoking the electric magic of an extraordinary era.

83
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
The overall effect is awe and affection -- and a strange urge to get on a board and, uh, shred, dude.

75
USA Today
Mike Clark
The film is, however, almost inevitably wistful for the past, and many of its emotional touches come from juxtaposed then-and-now footage of the participants.

75
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
In keeping with the unrefined spirit of the '70s, the movie is deliberately haphazard and proudly retains all its mistakes, including narrator Sean Penn going up on his lines.
75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Exhilarating, breathless, must-see chronicle of the skateboarder revolution and evolution.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Here is an entire movie about looking cool while not wiping out. Call it a metaphor for life.

75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
Highly entertaining.

75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Few sports films catch their time, place and sport so well. For skateboard fans, this is a must. But it's also a great ride if you know nothing about the sport or what it meant. At the end of this movie, you will.

70
Salon.com
Jeff Stark
This movie is a sun-dappled documentary about skateboarding, about the thrill of speed, the joy of reckless youth. Turning it into an academic example of the problems of history -- of who tells it and how it gets told -- is a lot less fun.

70
New Times (L.A.)
Bill Gallo
We expect some depth and perspective from filmmakers, but even in talking about the movie Peralta sounds like an ex-high school quarterback who never got over the Big Game, or an old campus revolutionary who's never glimpsed the folly that went along with the fervor.

70
TV Guide
Ken Fox
If the sign of good documentary is its ability to enthrall you regardless of your prior interest in the subject, then Stacy Peralta's hugely entertaining film earns high marks.

70
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
As this taut, viscerally propulsive insider's history of the sport in its early years skids and leaps forward with a jaunty visual panache, it is impossible not to be seduced by its hard-edged vision of an endless teenage summer.

70
Variety
Dennis Harvey
A fascinating story, albeit with some missed opportunities in the telling.

60
Village Voice
Mark Holcomb
Makes for unexpectedly giddy viewing.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
Exhilarating but blatantly biased.

50
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
A thumping soundtrack, including David Bowie's "Rebel Rebel" and Pink Floyd's "Us and Them," fuels this high-energy look at a pack of underdogs who sowed the seeds for today's extreme sports craze.

50
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A more impartial filmmaker might have understood the need for other voices to balance against all that attitude, might have understood how hungry the film makes us for even a single non-adulatory moment.


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