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Going to the Dogtown
Now playing islandwide
June 02, 2005
[FILM] In the 1970s guys like Stacy Peralta, Skip Engblom and Jay Adams who got their adrenaline rush by riding their skateboards into empty swimming pools. Following on the success of the documentary
Dogtown and Z-Boys
, we have
Lords of Dogtown
, a semi-fictionalized account—it stars Heath Ledger and Johnny Knoxville, if that tells you anything—of the teenage surfers who pioneered "extreme sports" in Venice, California. Like all morality tales, they lived the good life, thrilling in their newfound hobby until it got to be big business and then they started battling each other for power and money. Look for lots of cool skating and Rebecca De Mornay. [ANTHONY PIGNATARO]