An exhaustive - no, make that exhausting - look at a team of young skateboarders ...
Bones Brigade: An Autobiography
2012 · 1h 51m · PG
Documentary
Directed by
Stacy Peralta
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Bones Brigade: An Autobiography
Overview
When six teenage boys came together as a skateboarding team in the 1980s, they reinvented not only their chosen sport but themselves too – as they evolved from insecure outsiders to the most influential athletes in the field.
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Like a high school reunion, filled with affectionate memories of an earlier, more innocent, time.
This film makes a great companion piece to Peralta's "Dogtown and Z-Boys,'' which leaves off where "Bones Brigades'' begins.
Gradually becomes an echo chamber of personal dramas and exploits, not to mention propulsive soundtrack cues - all within a sport already nursing a penchant for self-documentation.
The film risks self-importance, but when Peralta admits through tears just how much he loves his skater charges, it imparts what every parent knows ...
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