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Overview

User Rating:
7.5/10   4,287 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Stacy Peralta (written by) &
Craig Stecyk (written by)
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Release Date:
3 January 2002 (Australia) more
Tagline:
A Film About The Birth Of The Now more
Plot:
Documentary about the pioneering 1970s Zephyr skating team. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
6 wins & 5 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(3 articles)
DVD: Review: Crips And Bloods: Made In America
 (From The AV Club. 19 May 2009, 10:00 PM, PDT)

Games: Review: skate 2
 (From The AV Club. 26 January 2009, 11:40 AM, PST)

User Comments:
Edgy documentary on skateboarding... more (84 total)

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Sean Penn ... Narrator (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jay Adams ... Himself (Zephyr skate team)
Tony Alva ... Himself (Zephyr skate team)
Jeff Ament ... Himself
Bob Biniak ... Himself (Zephyr skate team)
Steve Caballero ... Himself (skateboard champion)
Paul Constantineau ... Himself (Zephyr skate team)
'Baby' Paul Cullen ... Himself (Zephyr skate team)
Skip Engblom ... Himself (Zephyr co-founder)
Steve Freidman ... Surfer (archive footage)
Tony Friedkin ... Himself
Glen E. Friedman ... Himself
Marty Grimes ... Himself (Dogtown skater)

David Hackett ... Himself (70's skateboard champion)

Tony Hawk ... Himself
Allan Jeff Ho ... Himself
Jeff Ho ... Himself (Zephyr co-founder)
Wes Humpston ... Himself (Dogtown skater / artist)
Shogo Kubo ... Himself (Zephyr skate team)
Joe Leahy ... 50s Voice Announcer (voice)
Ronnie Jay Leipold ... Himself (Zephyr surf team) (as Ronnie Jay)
Ian MacKaye ... Himself
Jim Muir ... Himself (Zephyr skate team)
Peggy Oki ... Herself (Zephyr skate team)
Steve Olson ... Himself
Stacy Peralta ... Himself (Zephyr skate team)
Jake Phelps ... Himself (editor, Thrasher magazine)
Nathan Pratt ... Himself (Zephyr skate team)
Mark Reiter ... Himself (70's New York skater)
Fran Richards ... Himself (Transworld skateboarding magazine)
Henry Rollins ... Himself
Wentzle Ruml ... Himself (Zephyr skate team)
Allen Sarlo ... Himself (Zephyr skate team)
Tom Sims ... Himself (70's skateboard champion)
Craig Stecyk ... Himself (Zephyr co-founder; writer / photographer)
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for language and some drug references.
Runtime:
91 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
One of 'Sean Penn''s reasons for signing on as Narrator was that he himself had lived and surfed in and near the Dogtown area. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: A brief shot of a news article/photo of the Z-Boys is flopped (so that the text is backwards). more
Quotes:
Tony Alva: My goal was, I wanted to be the best in the world. more
Movie Connections:
Soundtrack:
Disco Inferno more

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7 out of 8 people found the following comment useful.
Edgy documentary on skateboarding..., 5 July 2003
Author: mrchaos33 from Toronto, Ontario

A close-up look at the birth of skate board culture in Southern California, Dogtown and Z-Boys has attitude to burn, just like the sport it documents. Directed by Stacy Peralta, one of the legends of the sport, it captures the punk rock spirit of skate boarding, and perfectly places it into context within the boundaries of time (the 1970s) and location (a neighbourhood between Santa Monica and Venice, California). Even if you are not a fan you'll be fascinated by the story, which is told using a combination of narration, stills, great vintage 1970s skate boarding footage and new interviews with all the key players. Sean Penn provides the narration, and adds a flair all of his own. The opposite of stodgy, Penn speaks to the audience not at them, sounding like someone sitting at a bar telling the tale. At one point in mid-sentence he coughs, pauses for a moment and then continues. It's this kind of approach that gives this movie its edge.

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