Lords of Dogtown (Unrated Extended Cut)
by Catherine Hardwicke
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Actor: Emile Hirsch, Heath Ledger, Johnny Knoxville, Rebecca De Mornay, Victor RasukDirector: Catherine Hardwicke
Brand: Sony
Producer: Art Linson
Producer: Beanie Barnes
Producer: Canada Johanna Gordon
Producer: David Fincher
Producer: Ginger Sledge
Producer: John Linson
Writer: Stacy Peralta
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-27
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Lords of Dogtown (Unrated Extended Cut)
Movie Review: Funky film-making
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't give a whit about skateboarding. It's got to be the most annoying activity known to man. But this movie is a real thrill-ride, not because of the content, but because of the quality poured into the technical aspects. Shot in a violently saturated color motif, it's full of 70s surfer dudes who look quite contemporary as they depict the morphing of surfing into skateboarding in a true tale written by one of the dudes portrayed in the film. Great 70s soundtrack, to boot. I'd never heard of any of these people, but evidently they are legends in the field. They all appear in the extras, and some are extras in the film. Very entertaining from a film standpoint, if not content. The late Heath Ledger plays a stoner surf shop owner who invents the notion of a skateboard team back in Venice, Ca., when it wasn't full of tourists.
Summary of Lords of Dogtown (Unrated Extended Cut)
LORDS OF DOGTOWN tells 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 (John Robinson, Elephant), Tony Alva (Victor Rasuk, Raising Victor Vargas) and Jay Adams (Emile Hirsch, The Girl Next Door) 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. Directed by Catherine Hardwicke (thirteen) and written by Stacy Peralta, Lords of Dogtown is "...a dazzling daredevil ride." (Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE)Lords of Dogtown captures the sheer kinetic joy of skateboarding like no other movie (except, perhaps, Dogtown and Z Boys, a documentary about the very skateboarders this movie depicts). Set in the mid-1970s in Venice, CA--a.k.a. Dogtown--the movie starts with three young aspiring surfers turned skateboarders: Stacy (John Robinson, Elephant), Jay (Emile Hirsch, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys), and Tony (Victor Rasuk, Raising Victor Vargas). When alpha-stoner Skip (Heath Ledger, A Knight's Tale) recognizes the potential of skateboarding as a new sport, his surf shop becomes the center of the boys' universe. They swiftly rise as skateboarding stars and find their brotherhood threatened by sex, money, fame, and ego--it's a common enough story, but director Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen) has a gift for capturing the raw messiness of life. Lords of Dogtown seems to unfold haphazardly, yet every scene moves the increasingly dizzy rise (or fall) of each skater forward with headlong momentum. The excellent cast includes Rebecca De Mornay (Risky Business), Johnny Knoxville (Jackass: The Movie), and Nikki Reed (Thirteen). Lords of Dogtown, written by skater Stacy Peralta (and based on his own life), both celebrates the excitement of testosterone-fueled recklessness and quietly reflects on the cost of getting what you want. --Bret Fetzer
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