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Skate Gang

Original title: Thrashin'
  • 1986
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 33m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
5.4K
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Josh Brolin and Pamela Gidley in Skate Gang (1986)
Two skateboarding gangs battle each other for supremacy, and a member of one gang falls in love with the sister of his rival.
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Two skateboarding gangs battle each other for supremacy, and a member of one gang falls in love with the sister of his rival.Two skateboarding gangs battle each other for supremacy, and a member of one gang falls in love with the sister of his rival.Two skateboarding gangs battle each other for supremacy, and a member of one gang falls in love with the sister of his rival.

  • Director
    • David Winters
  • Writers
    • Paul Brown
    • Alan Sacks
  • Stars
    • Josh Brolin
    • Robert Rusler
    • Pamela Gidley
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.5/10
    5.4K
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    • Director
      • David Winters
    • Writers
      • Paul Brown
      • Alan Sacks
    • Stars
      • Josh Brolin
      • Robert Rusler
      • Pamela Gidley
    • 47User reviews
    • 24Critic reviews
    • 54Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Josh Brolin
    Josh Brolin
    • Corey Webster
    Robert Rusler
    Robert Rusler
    • Tommy Hook
    Pamela Gidley
    Pamela Gidley
    • Chrissy
    Brooke McCarter
    Brooke McCarter
    • Tyler
    • (as Brooke McCarter Jr.)
    Josh Richman
    • Radley
    Brett Marx
    • Bozo
    David Wagner
    • Little Stevie
    Chuck McCann
    Chuck McCann
    • Sam Flood
    Tony Alva
    Tony Alva
    • T.A.
    Mark Munski
    • Monk
    Sherilyn Fenn
    Sherilyn Fenn
    • Velvet
    Gary Goodrich
    • Skate Club Announcer
    • (as Zachary)
    Rocky Giordani
    Rocky Giordani
    • Skate Club Bouncer
    Steve Whittaker
    • Bus Driver
    Per Welinder
    • Per - Venice Freestyler
    Mondo Beck
    • Dagger
    Christian Hosoi
    Christian Hosoi
    • Dagger…
    Jesse Martinez
    • Dagger
    • Director
      • David Winters
    • Writers
      • Paul Brown
      • Alan Sacks
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    6kastagne

    cheesy and gnarly.........

    1986.Skatebordin' is blooming and almost booming...... What could have been another piece of crap is actually and surprisingly quite good. The plot shows now and then some usual clichés amongst skaters, but the cast plays very good; i cannot say it is the most engrossing movie of the 80's, but you'll get your amount of fun, love, music and skating scenes.As in many teen flicks(remember Tuff Turf),the plot is simple:Valleyboy meets the girl, but the girl belongs to the opponent's team,a competition will take place.....guess the ending..... If you're a Red Hot Chilli Peppers fan,don't miss their performance live, singing a song from their first album.
    6parkerbcn

    80s sports entertainment

    Another very 80s sports movie released the same year as the wonderful "Rad", but not nearly as good. If that one was about BMX races, here we have skateboarding, but instead of an underdog story, we have the also traditional "Romeo and Juliet" love story. With a post-Goonies Josh Brolin as a not very engaging main character and a lot of stunts by famous skaters of the era, it's good 80s entertainment, but not memorable.
    8fittsy

    Better than Gleaming the Cube!

    I think the previous comment was crazy.

    Gleaming the cube is a horrible skate movie.

    I know the screenplay of Thrashin wasn't any good but it was truer to skateboarding than Gleaming the Cube where a dude makes a skateboard out of steel plate! Thrashin had a ton of real skaters in it, they have the performance in the skateboarding night club by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and lots of other cool tidbits.

    The Daggers were obviously made up of Alva team skaters as one of Tony's classic designs was the Alva Dagger.

    I know Thrashin isn't an Oscar nominee but I give them a lot more credit than Gleaming the Cube. Thrashin tried to be truer to their skateboarding roots. Gleaming was just a way to GLEEN money from the movie goers pockets.

    As far as comparing it to Powell & Peralta Bone's Brigade movies... those were skate videos and featured primarily skateboarding sequences. There weren't a lot of story lines or acting. Even The Search for Animal Chin only has a limited amount of story and is entirely focused on the skateboarding.
    7cwbellor

    You like games, right valley boy?

    Corey is the golden boy of skating. But when he drops in on Captain Hook's family half pipe, road rash and gnarly pavement are the least of his worries. Corey's got the hots for Hooky's bodacious babe sister, Chrissy. But Corey is blinded by valley vision and he's not familiar with one of Daggertown's truisms – if you hang out here, you hang out with Daggers! Hook doesn't appreciate Corey ruining his show and anyone who knows Hook knows that Hook's show never stops. With the help of Monk the Punk and the other dirty Daggers, Hook is determined to keep Corey from playing kissy with Chrissy. But Corey is in over his head and he's about to find out that there are some games he just doesn't know how to play. When Hook challenges him to a game of joust, the odds are against him. It could be because, unlike Hook, he doesn't have a lock of his girlfriend's hair attached to an earing as a good luck charm. Hook won't be happy until Corey is just like break dancing, a memory! If Hook has to burn a ramp, get medieval in a half pipe or race the guy down a hill at sixty miles an hour to make that happen then he'll do it. Oh and by the way, that wild Indian picture happens to be stylin'!
    10GodLovesMoviesToo

    Thrashin

    THRASHIN' is The Movie! Everything is right in this '80 classic. There are greater movies. More profound movies. Movies of greater artistic vision or originality or political significance. There are other titles I would put above it on my list of the best films of all time. But when it comes right down to the movies we treasure the most, when we are—let us imagine—confiding the secrets of our heart to someone we think we may be able to trust, the conversation sooner or later comes around to the same nine words: "Well what do you thrash?" "What do you got!" Life shod be like Thrashin': not to complicated,with good friends,not so bad enemies,sweet girlfriend and YES a happy ending !!! My candidate for the best Hollywood '80. movie.Good race!!!

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    • Trivia
      Jesse Martinez: lying on the ground at the L.A. Massacre, with medics tending to his broken leg. His leg was really broken, and the medics were not actors.
    • Goofs
      When Chrissy is showing her skateboard skills for Corey, she starts in a regular skateboard stance. After her tricks she stands in a goofy stance.
    • Quotes

      Tommy Hook: That wild Indian picture happens to be stylin', you don't know what you're talkin' about.

    • Crazy credits
      Catherine Hardwicke appears on-screen in the opening credits during her credit as Production Designer.
    • Connections
      Featured in Makin' Thrashin' (2003)
    • Soundtracks
      Thrashin'
      Performed by Meat Loaf

      Written by Larry Frankland Lee, Alan Sacks and Jodi Micheli (as Jodi Sacks-Micheli)

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    • Release date
      • August 29, 1986 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Thrashin'
    • Filming locations
      • Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA(As the Bronson Canyon halfpipe joust.)
    • Production company
      • Winters Hollywood Entertainment Holdings
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 33m(93 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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