Gleaming the Cube
1989 · 1h 46m · Action, Crime, Thriller · United States of America · Rated PG-13 (US)
All he cared about was gleaming the cube...until the night they killed his brother.
An Orange County teenager's carefree life of ditching class and skateboarding abandoned pools comes to a screeching halt when someone close to him dies. The cops rule the death a suicide, but the bereaved skater believes he was murdered. It's up to him to solve the case, with a skateboard.
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Graeme CliffordWritten by
Michael Tolkin6.0Smart score
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