
mid90s(2018)
In 1990s Los Angeles, a 13-year-old spends his summer navigating between a troubled home life and a crew of new friends he meets at a skate shop.


“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.

Christian Slater
Brian Kelly

Steven Bauer
Al Lucero

Richard Herd
Ed Lawndale

Ed Lauter
Mr. Kelly
Le Tuan
Colonel Trac

Peter Kwong
Bobby Nguyen

Charles Cyphers
Harvey McGill

Micole Mercurio
Mrs. Kelly
Min Luong
Tina Trac

Art Chudabala
Vinh Kelly
Gleaming the Cube is a crime, thriller, action film released in 1989 exploring themes of skateboarding, los angeles, california. Directed by Graeme Clifford, it stars Christian Slater, Steven Bauer, Richard Herd. 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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