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Director: George Gage
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From Time Out Film Guide
This would seem to promise a rip-off Bad News Bears on wheels, and visions of yet another exploitative US sub-culture package hardly whet the appetite. Yet anticipations of doom are happily dashed: the familiar ingredients of cynical but loveable coach (Garfield), bronzed, blond-curled Southern Californian kids, the absurdist razzmatazz of American competitive sport, and a rock soundtrack, here actually mesh into a rather endearing entertainment. The film neatly explores the psychology (and the economics) of hype and 'pressure', and its many skateboard action sequences are well shot and edited. A good, lightweight, upbeat family film.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: George Gage
Producer: Harry N Blum, Richard A Wolf
Cast: Allen Garfield, Kathleen Lloyd, Leif Garrett, Richard Van Der Wyk, Tony Alva, Anthony Carbone full cast
Duration: 97 mins
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