Also starring A.J. Buckley, Caleb Michaelson & Cameron Pierce, the story takes place in the early 1980s, in small-town Texas, where dramatic events force a 19-year-old skating rink manager to look at his life in a very new way. The film premiered a the Sundance Film Festival in 2010, and later played at the South by Southwest, Dallas, Seattle, Indianapolis and Edmonton Film Festivals. Freestyle Releasing is finally bringing Skateland to limited Us theaters starting on March 25th, 2011.
- 1/20/2011
- by Pietro Filipponi
- The Daily BLAM!
Director: Anthony Burns Writers: Anthony Burns, Brandon Freeman, Heath Freeman Starring: Ashley Greene, Shiloh Fernandez, Heath Freeman, Taylor Handley, Brett Cullen, Haley Ramm, Melinda McGraw, James LeGros, A.J. Buckley The central story of Skateland revolves around a 19-year old – Ritchie Wheeler (Shiloh Fernandez) – who does not want to deal with life after high school. The personification of slackerdom, Ritchie is perfectly content working as a manager at the local roller-skating rink – Skateland – and drinking with his buddies every night. Essentially, Ritchie is stuck in the developmental limbo of East Texas circa 1983. (Though not politically motivated, Skateland does effectively reflect the changing mindset of America’s suburban middle class at the end of the recession.) Working at Skateland is a totally sweet gig – flirting with girls, roller-skating, chatting with friends – but unfortunately, it will soon be shuttering its doors and windows and becoming yet another relic of a bygone era (ala...
- 4/8/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
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