Gleaming the Cube
All he cared about was gleaming the cube...until the night they killed his brother.
Rating: 6.0 out of 10TMDB(148 votes)
Overview
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.
Fun facts
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Box office
Grossed $2.78M worldwide against a $10M budget
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Music
Music by Jay Ferguson
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Reed Smoot
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Michael TolkinWriter
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 13, 1989
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $10M
- Revenue
- $2.8M
- Countries
- United States of America
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In the United States
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Cast
Christian SlaterBrian Kelly
Steven BauerAl Lucero
Richard HerdEd Lawndale
Ed LauterMr. Kelly- Le TuanColonel Trac
Peter KwongBobby Nguyen
Charles CyphersHarvey McGill
Micole MercurioMrs. Kelly- Min LuongTina Trac
Art ChudabalaVinh Kelly
Max PerlichYabbo
Tony HawkBuddy- Tommy GuerreroSam
Christian JacobsGremic- Joe GoshaNick Oliver
- Andy NguyenTran Thanh
Kieu ChinhMadame Trac- Joshua RavetchStudent Pilot
Jack RileyHomeowner- Ángela MoyaHousekeeper
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