Lords of Dogtown
A fictionalized take on the group of brilliant young skateboarders raised in the mean streets of Dogtown in Santa Monica, California during the 1970's.
21 January 1974, New York City, New York, USA
20 November 1989, Los Angeles, California, USA
1957
7 January 1971, Modesto, California, USA
September 9, 1978 in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA
13 March 1985, Palms, California, USA
12 May 1968, Carlsbad, California, USA
4 January 1948, Hollywood, California, USA
15 January 1984, New York City, New York, USA
18 May 1982, New York City, New York, USA
14 November 1982, Brandon, Wisconsin, USA
11 March 1971, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
12 December 1977
August 13, 2007
You don't have to care much about skateboarding (I really don't) to find the movie exhilarating and engaging.
June 03, 2005
Lords of Dogtown stays afloat, largely because many of its actors transcend Hardwicke's heavy-handed storytelling.
June 03, 2005
For someone who was there, not to mention someone who created Dogtown and Z-Boys, Peralta has crafted a script so superficial and simplistic it feels like it was tapped out by a 14-year-old fan.
April 19, 2007
Dogtown's testosterone fueled, deeply and sadly affectionate excursion into the contact highs and lows of male adolescence, gets it just right and more.
March 29, 2011
Lords of Dogtown is an interesting look at the start of an ever increasingly more popular part of American youth culture, but often settles for surface gloss instead of introspection.
June 06, 2005
These kids can act, and they can ride those boards.
June 03, 2005
Lords of Dogtown isn't a cop-out, but rather an ever-so-slight concession to commercialism, while Dogtown and Z-Boys was, above all else, a love song to the counterculture.
April 15, 2009
As the three friends separate via commercial successes afforded them, "Lords Of Dogtown" becomes a distinctly youthful American anecdote about the nature of friendship and success.
September 26, 2005
...a thoroughly dull piece of work.
June 03, 2005
It's hard to think of a movie since 1950's Sunset Boulevard that has gotten more dramatic impact out of a pool.
March 01, 2007
A modestly entertaining movie, thanks largely to the efforts of director Catherine Hardwicke and the three leads.
June 03, 2005
If watching Dogtown and Z-Boys was tantamount to witnessing history itself, watching Lords of Dogtown, which Peralta wrote, feels more like watching a stiff, meticulously choreographed reenactment.
