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Box Office: $1,187,606
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CONSENSUS
Dogtown and Z-Boys is a colorful, exhilarating look at the skateboarding subculture.
CAST & CREW
Jay Adams, Tony Alva, Stacy Peralta
Directed by Stacy Peralta
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SYNOPSIS
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." more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, language and some drug use
RUNTIME
89 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Apr 26, 2002
Video: Aug 6, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Sony Pictures Classics
GENRE
Sports/Recreation, Skateboarding, Rock And Roll, Documentary
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Dogtown and Z-Boys Site
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 "More than simply a portrait of early extreme sports, this peek into the 1970s skateboard revolution is a skateboard film as social anthropology..."
-- Sean Axmaker, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"About nowhere kids who appropriated turfs as they found them and become self-made celebrity athletes -- a low-down version of the American dream."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
 "At times, however, Dogtown and Z-Boys lapses into an insider's lingo and mindset that the uninitiated may find hard to follow, or care about."
-- Peter Bernard, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
"This flick is about as cool and crowd-pleasing as a documentary can get."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"Dogtown & Z-Boys evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy demise of James Dean."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"The film fearlessly gets under the skin of the people involved ... This makes it not only a detailed historical document, but an engaging and moving portrait of a subculture."
-- Rich Cline, FILM THREAT
"Dogtown is hollow, self-indulgent, and - worst of all - boring."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"Enormously enjoyable, high-adrenaline documentary."
-- Manohla Dargis, L.A. WEEKLY
"This documentary by Stacy Peralta makes a convincing case on behalf of skateboarding, of all things, as a catalyst for this change, and for some delinquent youths in a derelict Los Angeles neighborhood as its agents."
-- Duane Dudek, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"If the sign of good documentary is its ability to enthrall you regardless of your prior interest in the subject, then Stacy Peralta's hugely entertaining film earns high marks."
-- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"Dogtown and Z-Boys more than exposes the roots of the skateboarding boom that would become "the punk kids' revolution.""
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"Fast-paced and wonderfully edited, the film is extremely thorough."
-- Dan Gross, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
"The people in Dogtown and Z-Boys are so funny, aggressive and alive, you have to watch them because you can't wait to see what they do next."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
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"Although devoid of objectivity and full of nostalgic comments from the now middle-aged participants, Dogtown and Z-Boys has a compelling story to tell."
-- Laura Bushell, BBCI FILMS
"Has all the depth of a wading pool."
-- Jason Clark, MATINEE MAGAZINE
"If you want to know where we are going, it's always nice to know where we've been, and Dogtown and Z-Boys is a part of the story."
-- Gary Cogill, WFAA-TV
"A thrilling experience, and one that can be thoroughly enjoyed even if you're unable to discern a 'kickflip' from a 'frontside air.'"
-- Warren Curry, FILMCRITIC.COM
"Poetry in motion captured on film. While it can be a bit repetitive, overall it's an entertaining and informative documentary."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"Its sheer dynamism is infectious."
-- El Topo, IOFILM.CO.UK
"Peralta's mythmaking could have used some informed, adult hindsight."
-- Bill Gallo, NEW TIMES
"Even people clueless about skateboarding can enjoy Dogtown and Z-Boys."
-- Susan Green, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"An account that's as raw and colorful as the misfits it mythologizes."
-- James Hebert, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"Voracious visually, unswerving narratively, and stylistically brave."
-- Jon Lap, APOLLO GUIDE
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Avg. Rating: 7.6/10 |
"Unless you come in to the film with a skateboard under your arm, you're going to feel like you weren't invited to the party."
-- John Anderson, NEWSDAY
"Peralta captures, in luminous interviews and amazingly evocative film from three decades ago, the essence of the Dogtown experience."
-- Mike Antonucci, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
"A wild ride with eight boarders from Venice Beach that was a deserved co-winner of the Audience Award for documentaries at the Sundance Film Festival."
-- Duane Byrge, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Filmmaker Stacy Peralta has a flashy editing style that doesn't always jell with Sean Penn's monotone narration, but he respects the material without sentimentalizing it."
-- Mike Clark, USA TODAY
"The film has an infectious enthusiasm and we're touched by the film's conviction that all life centered on that place, that time and that sport."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"Watch this, and the next time you see the X Games or a skateboarding video game commercial, you'll think of the Z-boys and how it all began."
-- Curt Fields, WASHINGTON POST
"A dazzlingly crafted documentary."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Exhilarating but blatantly biased."
-- Edward Guthmann, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"Despite its faults, this is a fascinating look at a subculture."
-- Eric Harrison, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"Its spirit of iconoclastic abandon -- however canned -- makes for unexpectedly giddy viewing."
-- Mark Holcomb, VILLAGE VOICE
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"The overall effect is awe and affection -- and a strange urge to get on a board and, uh, shred, dude."
-- Shawn Levy, OREGONIAN
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