Gleaming the Cube
All he cared about was gleaming the cube...until the night they killed his brother.
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1/13/1989Runtime
106 minsOverview
An Orange County teenager's carefree life of ditching class and skateboarding abandoned pools comes to a screeching halt when someone close to him dies. The cops rule the death a suicide, but the bereaved skater believes he was murdered. It's up to him to solve the case, with a skateboard.
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ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$10,000,000Revenue
$2,777,280Homepage
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A teenage skater trades the freedom of empty pools for a dangerous investigation into his brother's suspicious death, mixing 80s action-thriller energy with the raw emotion of grief-fueled determination. It's a film that lets skateboarding culture clash with crime thriller mechanics, earnest, sometimes awkwardly so, but genuinely invested in its protagonist's need to prove the world wrong.
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