Follows Stevie, a thirteen-year-old in 1990s-era Los Angeles who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate ... Read allFollows Stevie, a thirteen-year-old in 1990s-era Los Angeles who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop.Follows Stevie, a thirteen-year-old in 1990s-era Los Angeles who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop.
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Del the Funky Homosapien
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This film was well done. It takes you to a trip to experience life in the 90s and skater culture. The movie was filmed and all the actors did a good job. This movie is kind of short I wish it was a little longer. The ending was a little abrupt and didn't have a full conclusion. If you have the time I'd give this a watch.
Aside from a couple minor issues I had with this film, I loved it. It just felt incredibly real. I didn't feel like I was watching actors. I felt like I was watching the lives of these kids unfold, and that those lives would just continue unfolding even when the camera wasn't rolling.
Where "Jonah Hill" places his characters, the way they speak, his direction. All of this speaks to me, cus a lot of us lived through moments like this. The love on display, carrys through any contrivances that you expect from a film like this.
I was a little nervous when I read that Jonah Hill was writing and directing a skateboarder drama. Being a skateboarder myself all my life, I really focused on how this movie was. Was it gonna be a wacky comedy or something serious? I walked out of the movie theatre with a massive smile on my face! This movie had the perfect tone to it. You really do feel for the characters and you really feel for Stevie. Growing up a skater, I really related to Stevie in the movie. while it focuses on a little kid becoming a skateboarder, it also deals with a lot of real life problems. Future, health, how hard some people's lives are. And this movie portrayed that beautifully! Hat tipped to Jonah hill! This is a must see not just for skateboarders for for everybody!
Mid90s is Jonah Hill's love-letter and confronting examination of a decade we now look back upon with incomparable admiration and respect. It's got everything: skateboards, VCRs, Super Nintendo, Sony PlayStation, Ren and Stimpy t-shirts and gangsta-culture. It's a time-capsule movie that truly doesn't feel like it was made in 2018 at all: its setting and characters are that convincing in making us Belgrave we're back in the 90s. Sure it's not all sunshine-and-bunnies in the story: the main character suffers physical abuse from his older brother and his mother isn't the most accepting person on the planet, but the movie's exploration of camaraderie, sex and drugs and rock and roll, VidCam filmmaking, skateboards and no longer feeling like an outsider makes Mid90s quite the visual and story-based treat.
This film is a short and ridiculously sweet nostalgia trip for anyone wanting something simple, relatable and honest.
This film is a short and ridiculously sweet nostalgia trip for anyone wanting something simple, relatable and honest.
Did you know
- TriviaIn an interview, Jonah Hill admitted that he was afraid audiences would accuse him of being homophobic because of the repeated use of words like f****t throughout the film and considered shooting a scene where the kids debate over whether they should be using that kind of language. He showed the scene to producer Scott Rudin, himself a gay man, who asked "Would you guys have had this conversation back then?" When Jonah said no, Rudin said that the scene would be "more offensive to put that in the movie than to show it how it actually was."
- GoofsThe film is said to take place in 1996 yet Stevie and his brother play PlayStation (1) with dual analog controllers. The first PlayStation launched with a D-pad controller with no analog sticks; dual analog controllers didn't release until April 1997 in Japan and late August 1997 in the United Sates.
- Crazy creditsThe A24 logo at the start of the film is made of skateboards.
- ConnectionsFeatured in CTV News at 11:30 Toronto: Episode dated 9 September 2018 (2018)
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- Language
- Also known as
- En los 90
- Filming locations
- 5858 Whittier Boulevard, East Los Angeles, California, USA(Stevie rides his bike by this location watching the skaters across the street.)
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Box office
- Budget
- $1,700,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $7,362,439
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $258,157
- Oct 21, 2018
- Gross worldwide
- $9,303,022
- Runtime
- 1h 25m(85 min)
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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