Main specs
Actor(s): Sean Penn
Director(s): Stacy Peralta
Genre: Sports - Skating & Skateboarding
Classification: 15 years and over
Production Year: 2001
Running Time: 1 hour 31 minutes
Video Category: Television
Plot: A documentary looking at the Zephyr Skating Team from the Californian surf community of Dogtown, Santa Monica.
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT; BLACK DIAMOND FILMS LTD.
Release date: 13/01/2003
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: CDR 33377
Editor: Paul Crowder
Barcode: 5035822337732
Screenwriter: Sean Penn, Craig Stecyk, Stacy Peralta
Narrator: Sean Penn
Director of Photography: Peter Pilifian
Featured: Sean Penn, Tony Alva, Ian MacKaye, Henry Rollins, Stacy Peralta, Jay Adams
Producer: Sean Penn, Jay Wilson, Agi Orsi, Stacy Peralta
Interviewee: Ian MacKaye, Henry Rollins
Languages
Main Language: English
Subtitle Language: English
Hearing Impaired Language: English
Technical information
Special Features: Director Stacy Peralta And Editor Paul Crowders Commentary, Deleted Scene, Trailer, Weblinks
Aspect Ratio: 1.33 Full Screen
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.0
Dubbing Sound: Dolby Digital 5.0 English
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DVD Description
In the late 1960s, a group of burnt out teenagers from broken homes ambled together and began to surf along Venice, California's Pacific Ocean Park pier, a ghostly shell of a former amusement park nicknamed "Dogtown." United by their attention to style and willingness to take risks, this group of unruly boys were handpicked and nurtured by maverick surfboard designer Jeff Ho, who christened them the Zephyr surf team (or Z-boys). Originally taking up skateboarding as a distraction for the non-surfing hours, the team ended up revolutionizing what was to become an internationally popular sport, using emptied out pools to create a surf-inspired style that was fluid and vertical and ultimately made them legends.
In this fine, frenetic documentary, director Stacy Peralta (one of the most famous Z-boys) tells the inspiring story of himself and his team. Through interviews, archival film footage, and stunningly beautiful still photographs taken by the Z-boys photographers Craig Stecyk and Glen E. Friedman, Peralta delves into both the large and small of the story--from the personal details of skaters' lives to their lasting impact upon a sport that became a culture. The soundtrack--an expertly chosen mix of classic punk rock and heavy metal including The Stooges, Black Sabbath, and Alice Cooper--is the perfect aural complement to this story, reflecting the rebellious attitude that fueled the boys.
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Professional reviews
Review: "...The film has an infectious enthusiasm..." (Chicago Sun-Times, p.33, 10/05/2002)
"...A dazzlingly crafted documentary about the teenage surf punks of lower Los Angeles....The movie invites you to share their free ride..." (Entertainment Weekly, p.61, 03/05/2002)
"...The Z-Boys' story is a compelling and culturally significant one, and the vintage footage that goes along with it is really something to see..." (Los Angeles Times, p.C1, 26/04/2002)
"...An exhilarating piece of filmmaking....An inventive, kinetic burst of cinematic brio..." (Movieline, p.41, 01/05/2002)
"...A giddy, thrilling, rock 'n' roll-saturated history of skateboarding....[A] taut, viscerally propulsive insider's history of the sport in its early years..." (New York Times, p.E25, 26/04/2002)
"...Featuring a killer soundtrack of classic rock and new wave..." (Premiere, p.28, 01/04/2002)
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