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Gleaming the Cube(Movie, 1989)

1h 49min | Genres: Crime, Thriller, Action
Gleaming the CubeRating: 3.0/5 (with 5353 votes)
Gleaming the Cube (also known as A Brother's Justice and Skate or Die; released in the Philippines as Challenge to Win Again) is a 1989 American film directed by Graeme Clifford and starring Christian Slater as Brian Kelly, a 16-year-old skateboarder investigating the death of his adopted Vietnamese brother. The skating technical advisor for the film was original Z-Boy Stacy Peralta. Among the skateboarders who appear in the film as stunt skaters are Mike McGill, Mark "Gator" Rogowski, Rodney Mullen, Rich Dunlop, Eric Dressen, Lance Mountain, Mike Vallely, Chris Black, Ted Ehr, Natas Kaupas, Chris Borst, and Steve Saiz. Tony Hawk (Buddy) and Tommy Guerrero (Sam), then members of the Bones Brigade, appear in the film as members of Brian's skate crew. Christian Jacobs, future lead singer of The Aquabats and creator of Yo Gabba Gabba!, also appears in the film as Gremic. The film received a moderate release in the United States from 20th Century Fox (in... ()
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About Gleaming the Cube

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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Gleaming The Cube HD - OFFICIAL TRAILER - SKATE(Trailer, 1:57)

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN), Portuguese (PT), Vietnamese (VI)
Translated into 13 languages: Danish (DA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 01/13/1989
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Rebellen auf Skateboards"
"Tödliches Risiko"
"A Brother's Justice"
"Skate or Die"
Budget: 10,000,000 USD
Revenue: 2,777,280 USD (= 28%)

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:5005, Added: 02/14/2018, Last updated: 04/12/2024