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Thrashin' (1986)

Directed by David Winters

Drama

Most recently watched by zombiefreak

Overview

Corey and his band of skater buddies sometimes make mischief, but they’re more interested in girls and having fun on their boards than in getting into any real trouble. Notorious enemy crew the Daggers, led by Tommy Hook, get their kicks terrorizing the locals at Venice Beach. When Corey starts dating Tommy’s kid sister Chrissy, the Daggers are furious. The boys then take their beef to the “L.A. Massacre,” a deadly skate race down a canyon road.

Rated PG-13 | Length 93 minutes

Actors

Josh Brolin | Robert Rusler | Pamela Gidley | Brooke McCarter | Josh Richman | Brett Marx | David Wagner | Chuck McCann | Tony Alva | Mark Munski | Sherilyn Fenn | Gary Goodrich | Rocky Giordani | Steve Whittaker | Per Welinder | Anthony Kiedis | Flea | Hillel Slovak | Jack Irons | Mondo Beck | Christian Hosoi | Jesse Martinez | Masao Miyashiro | Johnny Ray | Eddie Reategui | Steve Steadham | Ruben Blue | Steve Caballero | Tony Hawk | Lester Kasai | Allen Losi | Tony Magnusson | Mike McGill | Billy Ruff | Kevin Staab | D. David Morin | Shaun Blayer | Catherine Hardwicke | Rodney Mullen | Alice Nunn | Alan Sacks | Steve Olson

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

I’ve blacked out many memories of my childhood, but one I’ve definitely retained is building a half pipe with some of the older kids in the neighborhood, even though I was too clumsy and scared to skate it. So, I really felt for the Ramp Locals when the Daggers burned theirs down in THRASHIN’, a movie I never caught growing up (SPOILER AL3RT !!11!).

THRASHIN’ is basically the BEAT STREET of skateboarding movies with a better ending. It even goes so far at one point as to have one of the Daggers approach a breaker in one scene and issue the memorable line, “Breakin’ is just a memory. Wimps”; the breaker’s head then drops in sadness to acknowledge his inferior position.

Though the requisite romance was a groaning tosser, I loved the skateboarding and freestyle scenes and the lurvely Eighties Comeptitive Posturing between Cory and Hook. THRASHIN’ is everything an Eighties Skateboarding movie needs to be: capturing the scene of an era, “fashionable,” montagey, full of action, and unintentionally funny.

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