Dogtown and Z-Boys

Name: Dogtown and Z-Boys
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2002-05-10
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Jay Adams, Tony Alva, Stacy Peralta, Steve Caballero, Tony Hawk

The birth of extreme

2002 · 1h 30m · PG-13 Documentary
Directed by Stacy Peralta

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Overview

This award-winning, thrilling story is about a group of discarded kids who revolutionized skateboarding and shaped the attitude and culture of modern day extreme sports. Featuring old skool skating footage, exclusive interviews and a blistering rock soundtrack, DOGTOWN AND Z-BOYS captures the rise of the Zephyr skateboarding team from Venice's Dogtown, a tough "locals only" beach with a legacy of outlaw surfing.

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Fresh 20 Jul 2002

Few sports films catch their time, place and sport so well.

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

Fresh 1 Nov 2007

You want to know more about their private lives than you get. But most viewers may be too stoked by the sheer adrenaline rush of the subject to care.

David Ansen, Newsweek

Fresh 2 Apr 2007

Package is lively, if loosely structured.

Dennis Harvey, Variety

Fresh 2 Apr 2007

This propulsive, highly satisfying 2002 documentary concerns a group of daredevil skateboarders from an economically depressed and dangerous area of Santa Monica known as Dogtown who reinvented the sport in the 70s.

Meredith Brody, Chicago Reader

Fresh 7 Jun 2002

This is pop history that blows your hair back.

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star