2005 · drama · action · sports
Lords of Dogtown
Directed by Catherine Hardwicke1h 47m2005
The radical true story behind three teenage surfers from Venice Beach, California, who took skateboarding to the extreme and changed the world of sports forever. Stacy Peralta, Tony Alva and Jay Adams are the Z-Boys, a bunch of nobodies until they create a new style of skateboarding that becomes a worldwide phenomenon. But when their hobby becomes a business, the success shreds their friendship.
Our read: Lords of Dogtown (2005) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · action · sports entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme drama / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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