FEATURE FILM

Gleaming the Cube

6.0/10
TMDB148 votes
1989Original: English106 min

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.

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Action
Cast: Christian Slater, Steven Bauer, Richard Herd, Ed Lauter, Le Tuan

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About Gleaming the Cube

All he cared about was gleaming the cube...until the night they killed his brother.

Gleaming the Cube (1989) is a film in the crime, thriller, action genres. Directed by Graeme Clifford. The cast includes Christian Slater, Steven Bauer, Richard Herd, Ed Lauter.

Released
1989-01-13
Original language
English
Runtime
106 minutes
Status
Released
Production countries
United States of America
Production companies
Gladden Entertainment, The Turman-Foster Company
Writers
Michael Tolkin

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Audience reviews

6.0/10 from 148 TMDB votes. Ratings and reviews are supplied by TMDB. Reviews are attributed to their original authors.

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TMDB member review

Yeah, it's not the best movie. It could actually be a lot better... but it is entertaining as all.... heck? Even if you aren't hip to the whole skater thing, this is a seriously fun movie to watch in the cheap 80s action/adventure kind of way. It has a compelling enough police drama vide, even if most of the action is centered around skateboarding... which is also fun to watch. I honestly think a lot of the…

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Yeah, it's not the best movie. It could actually be a lot better... but it is entertaining as all.... heck? Even if you aren't hip to the whole skater thing, this is a seriously fun movie to watch in the cheap 80s action/adventure kind of way. It has a compelling enough police drama vide, even if most of the action is centered around skateboarding... which is also fun to watch. I honestly think a lot of the distaste comes from the fact that it is capitalizing on what was, in the 80s, seen as a passing fad. But the story is still solid for what it is. It has a good message about family ties. It has actual character growth. The story is something that Hollywood has forgotten to do lately, make a compelling narrative. But this somehow manages to accomplish that and still, you know, exploit the skater phenomenon that was sweeping the nation at the time.

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What is Gleaming the Cube about?

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.

Who stars in Gleaming the Cube?

Christian Slater, Steven Bauer, Richard Herd, Ed Lauter, Le Tuan, Peter Kwong. See the cast cards above for character names.

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