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The birth of skateboard culture
In the mid-70s, the accomplishments of the innovative Zephyr skateboarding team of Venice, California, are dramatized based on events chronicled in skater Stacy Peraltas documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001). John Robinson plays Stacy, Emile Hirsch plays Jay and Victor Rasuk plays Tony (aka T.A.). Heath Ledger is on hand as Skip Zephyr while Rebecca De Mornay appears as one of the teens struggling mother.
While I suppose Lords of Dogtown (2005) is a sports flick, its just as much a coming-of-age movie detailing growing-up on the bad side of Venice, aka Dogtown, the birthplace of Americas skateboard culture, which influenced the world.
It reminded me of the dissolute environment depicted in Rive...