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- 2002
- PG-13
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 31 m
- 2002
- PG-13
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 31 m
Summary 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.
Directed By: Stacy Peralta
Written By: Craig Stecyk, Stacy Peralta
- 2002
- PG-13
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 31 m
- 2002
- PG-13
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 31 m
Dogtown and Z-Boys
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Summary 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.
Directed By: Stacy Peralta
Written By: Craig Stecyk, Stacy Peralta
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
76
85% Positive
23 Reviews
23 Reviews
15% Mixed
4 Reviews
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0% Negative
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An improbably bountiful subject -- kids on skateboards turning themselves into virtuoso artist-athletes -- has been brought to life in a wonderful, unpretentious documentary.
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.
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.
Highly entertaining.
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.
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.
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.
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Production Company
Agi Orsi Productions,
Vans
Release Date Apr 26, 2002
Duration 1 h 31 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline A Film About The Birth Of The Now
Website
http://www.dogtownmovie.com/
Awards
Sundance Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
AFI Fest
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
