I haven't seen this since junior high, so it's been at least 25 years, but I remember a lot about it. First, the theme song is a great rocking surf music instrumental. The plot is that a group of 12 or 13 year-old boys are in a skateboarding gang, they ride around this town in what looks like Southern California on those skinny 1960's skateboards and act all bad-ass. Then one of the boys meets a girl and starts hanging out with her. The other boys in the gang don't like this and one of them challenges the "skater-dater" to a skating competition which I remember involving a slalom on a steep hill. The boy with the girlfriend loses and is tossed out of the gang. The movie ends with the remaining members of the gang skating off and passing a group of girls with the implication being that the remaining gang members are about to discover girls themselves.
Looking back I think I loved this movie partly because at the time I had been attending an all-boys school since 1st grade. The character who gets a girlfriend and ditches the boy's club really appealed to me.
So, does anyone know where to find this movie?
Looking back I think I loved this movie partly because at the time I had been attending an all-boys school since 1st grade. The character who gets a girlfriend and ditches the boy's club really appealed to me.
So, does anyone know where to find this movie?