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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.
1989 · Directed by Graeme Clifford · 106 min · Crime · Thriller · Action · 10 frames
Tagline
All he cared about was gleaming the cube...until the night they killed his brother.
Crew
- Written by: Michael Tolkin
- Cinematography: Reed Smoot
- Edited by: John Wright
- Music: Jay Ferguson
- Production design: John Muto
- Produced by: David Foster, Lawrence Turman
Cast
- Christian Slater as Brian Kelly
- Steven Bauer as Al Lucero
- Richard Herd as Ed Lawndale
- Ed Lauter as Mr. Kelly
- Le Tuan as Colonel Trac
- Peter Kwong as Bobby Nguyen
- Charles Cyphers as Harvey McGill
- Micole Mercurio as Mrs. Kelly
- Min Luong as Tina Trac
- Art Chudabala as Vinh Kelly
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Portuguese, Vietnamese
- Studios: Gladden Entertainment, The Turman-Foster Company
- Budget: $10,000,000
- Box office: $2,777,280
- Themes: skateboarding, los angeles, california
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