Lords Of Dogtown Movie

The Lords of Dogtown movie is a biographical action drama focusing on the sport of surfing and skateboarding. It was written by Stacy Peralta and directed by Catherine Hardwicke and filmed starting April 2004 throughout California for the estimated budget of $25,000,000 and released on June 3rd, 2005. Although The Lords of Dogtown movie only grossed an estimated $11,000,000 during it’s United States theatre run it was nominated for 8 awards and Heath Ledger, who portrayed Skip, won the Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Actor of the Year. It was the only award honoured to the Lords of Dogtown movie, which was subsequently released on September 27th, 2005 with both a theatrical cut and an extended unrated cut.

The Lords of Dogtown movie centers around a group of teen surfers during the summer of 1975 from a neighbourhood in Venice nicknamed Dogtown because of it's location in the sprawling urban decayed zone of southern California. Skip Engblom, portrayed by Heath Ledger, the owner of a local surfing shop corners the market on polyurethane wheels that grip almost any surface, starts recruiting some local boys that include Jay Adams, portrayed by Emile Hersh, Tony Alva, portrayed by Victor Rasuk, Tony's sister Kathy, portrayed by Nikki Reed, and Stacy Robinson, who portrays the actual writer of the film, Stacy Peralta. He transforms there surfing skills into an extreme skateboarding team eventually known as the Zephyr Skateboard Team or Z-boys as there are now known in history.

The Z-boys under the guidance of Skip transfer there surfing skills towards that of the skateboard by practicing on drain pipes and empty swimming pools in the area, and there total lack of fear of manoeuvres propels them to new heights unheard of in the surfing world and which eventually lead them away from there roots and there mentor.