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  • 2003
  • PG-13
  • Warner Bros.
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2003
  • PG-13
  • Warner Bros.
  • 1 h 45 m

Summary While the rest of his high school graduating class is heading to the same old grind of college, skateboarder Eric Rivers (Vogel) and his best friends, Dustin (Brody), a goal-oriented workaholic, and misfit slacker Matt (Vieluf) have one last summer roadtrip together to follow their dream of getting noticed by the professional skateboardi...

Directed By: Casey La Scala

Written By: Ralph Sall

  • 2003
  • PG-13
  • Warner Bros.
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2003
  • PG-13
  • Warner Bros.
  • 1 h 45 m

Grind

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews
30
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 79 User Ratings
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Summary While the rest of his high school graduating class is heading to the same old grind of college, skateboarder Eric Rivers (Vogel) and his best friends, Dustin (Brody), a goal-oriented workaholic, and misfit slacker Matt (Vieluf) have one last summer roadtrip together to follow their dream of getting noticed by the professional skateboardi...

Directed By: Casey La Scala

Written By: Ralph Sall

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews
30
8% Positive
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42% Mixed
10 Reviews
50% Negative
12 Reviews

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews
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8% Positive
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42% Mixed
10 Reviews
50% Negative
12 Reviews

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75
What Grind lacks in cinematic skill, it makes up for in heart, which is what most dudes-in-arms flicks are missing. Given the option of spending eternity with these gentlemen or the boys of ''American Pie,'' I'd choose the lads of Grind.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
50
If you've recently watched that great skateboarding documentary "Dogtown and Z-Boys," Grind will play like a soft-pedaled Afterschool Special.
By Kim Morgan FULL REVIEW
40
A logo-laden celebration of the joys of sponsorship wrapped inside an innocuous teen-pic package.
By Amy Taubin FULL REVIEW
38
This movie is just not cool or hip or in any way extreme. Sitting through Grind is a real grind.
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30
Eager to please, but it’s so lacking in real-world skate politics that it more resembles the chugging PG-13 mediocrity of Top 40 pop-punk-lite than the hard-core Black Flagisms of Peralta’s scathingly real doc.
By Marc Savlov FULL REVIEW
20
While doing nothing to dispel the stereotype that skateboarding is the sport of brainless jackasses, Casey La Scala's directing debut does feature some nifty boarding action.
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Grind is an answer to the question that has been on the minds of many this summer: “Is there anything worse than Gigli?” The answer to this question is a resounding “YES!”
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Universal Acclaim Based on 79 User Ratings
8.2
78% Positive
62 Ratings
6% Mixed
5 Ratings
15% Negative
12 Ratings

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Universal Acclaim Based on 79 User Ratings
8.2
78% Positive
62 Ratings
6% Mixed
5 Ratings
15% Negative
12 Ratings

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Production Company 900 Films, Asphalt Productions, Gaylord Films, Gerber Pictures, Pandora Cinema
Release Date Aug 15, 2003
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating PG-13
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Tagline This Summer the underdogs have their day.
Website https://mt2.org/uyeler/grind.15931/
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