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Gleaming the Cube

Gleaming the Cube

6,0 /10 (146 Votes)
1989 EN 106 min

Overview

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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Release date

13/01/1989

Votes

146

Popularity

1.0

All he cared about was gleaming the cube...until the night they killed his brother.

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

106 min

Budget

$10,000,000

Revenue

$2,777,280

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GenerationofSwine

GenerationofSwine

2023-01-12

⭐ 10

Yeah, it's not the best movie. It could actually be a lot better... but it is entertaining as all.... heck? Even if you aren't hip to the whole skater thing, this is a seriously fun movie to watch in the cheap 80s action/adventure kind of way. It has a compelling enough police drama vide, even if most of the action is centered around skateboarding... which is also fun to watch. I honestly think a lot of the distaste comes from the fact that it is capitalizing on what was, in the 80s, seen as a passing fad. But the story is still solid for what it is. It has a good message about family…

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