Year: 2005
Running time: 105 min.
Country: United States
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Screenwriter: Stacy Peralta
Cast: Heath Ledger · Skip ; Emile Hirsch · Jay ; Victor Rasuk · Tony ; Johnny Knoxville · Topper Burks ; John Robinson · Stacy
Music: Mark Mothersbaugh
Cinematography: Elliot Davis
Producer: Columbia Pictures, Art Linson Productions, Linson Entertainment, Linson Films, Senator International. Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Synopsis: In the mid 1970's, a group of teenage surfers from a tough neighborhood known as "Dogtown" in Venice, California pioneered a revolutionary new style of skateboarding. Riding the waves at the Pacific Ocean Park pier, the Z-Boys, known for their aggressive style and hard street attitude, combined the death-defying moves of surfing with the art of skateboarding and became overnight sensations and local legends. With empty pools as their canvas, the Z-Boys paved the way to what is now referred to as "extreme sports," and created a lifestyle that spread infectiously to become a worldwide counterculture phenomenon. But all of this fame would take its toll on the friendships that they thought would last a lifetime as the sport that started out as an afternoon hobby turned into big business.
