Movie
Gleaming the Cube
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1989-01-13
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Genres
- Crime, Thriller, Action
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Gladden Entertainment, The Turman-Foster Company
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
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
- Max Perlich as Yabbo
- Tony Hawk as Buddy
Crew
- Graeme Clifford - Director
- Michael Tolkin - Writer
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