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Tell Others About This Page By Using This Button "LORDS OF DOGTOWN" (2005) (Victor Rasuk, Emile Hirsch) (PG-13) Alcohol/ Drugs Blood/Gore Disrespectful/ Bad Attitude Frightening/ Tense Scenes Guns/ Weapons Extreme Mild Heavy Mild Minor Imitative Behavior Jump Scenes Music (Scary/Tense) Music (Inappropriate) Profanity Extreme None None Moderate Heavy Sex/ Nudity Smoking Tense Family Scenes Topics To Talk About Violence Extreme Moderate Moderate Moderate Moderate QUICK TAKE: Drama: Some teenage friends in 1970s California revolutionize skateboarding and must deal with how their growing fame affects them and their relationships in their group and with others. PLOT: It's 1975 and Tony (VICTOR RASUK), Jay (EMILE HIRSCH), Stacy (JOHN ROBINSON) and Sid (MICHAEL ANGARANO) make up a quartet of teen friends who spend their time skateboarding and surfing, but must wait to do the latter until surf shop owner Skip (HEATH LEDGER) and his older friends including the hardened Chino (VINCENT LARESCA) are done. The boys' rambunctiousness partially stems from their family life, or lack thereof. Jay lives with his hard-partying mom Philaine (REBECCA DE MORNAY) and her significant other Donnie (WILLIAM MAPOTHER), while Tony shares his bedroom with his sister Kathy (NIKKI REED) and must deal with their volatile father (JULIO OSCAR MECHOSO). Seeing potential in the boys' talents on their skateboards, Skip forms them and others into a competitive team, hoping to make money off their wins through selling his own associated gear. With a severe drought forcing homeowners to keep their swimming pools empty, the boys find a new place to hone their unorthodox skateboarding skills and soon begin drawing huge crowds of friends and fans who are desirous of seeing their wild and risky stunts. As time passes, their talent eventually piques the interest of others, such as Topper Burks (JOHNNY KNOXVILLE), who are interested in stealing them away from Skip and signing them to exclusive and lucrative contracts. From that point on, the boys must deal with their growing fame and how it affects them and the various relationships in their lives. WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? If they're into skateboarding and extreme sports and/or are fans of someone in the cast, it's a good bet they might. WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: PG-13 For drug and alcohol content, sexuality, violence, language and reckless behavior - all involving teens. CAST AS ROLE MODELS: VICTOR RASUK plays a talented but hot-headed skateboarder and surfer who decides to parlay his talent into fame and fortune. He uses some profanity and drinks. EMILE HIRSCH plays his friend but later main rival who's also quite talented on the skateboard. He enjoys what he does but also wants to make enough money to get his mom out of her factory job, steals Kathy away from Stacy (and fools around with her), drinks, smokes pot and uses some profanity. JOHN ROBINSON plays their equally talented, but more reserved friend who isn't as egotistical as them and is upset when Jay steals Kathy away from him. MICHAEL ANGARANO plays their other friend who's less talented than them, drinks, smokes pot, and must later deal with a serious medical condition. HEATH LEDGER plays the laidback owner of a surf shop who forms the boys into a competitive group in hopes of making money from them. He smokes, drinks, uses profanity and is upset when the boys all bail out on him. REBECCA DE MORNAY plays Jay's hard-partying mom who works in a lamp factory. NIKKI REED plays Tony's sister who dumps Stacy in favor of Jay with whom she fools around. JOHNNY KNOXVILLE plays a somewhat seedy businessman who tries to steal Tony away from Skip's team. JULIO OSCAR MECHOSO plays Tony and Kathy's stern and restrictive father who's emotionally and physically abusive to Tony. CAST, CREW, & TECHNICAL INFO HOW OTHERS RATED THIS MOVIE Curious if this title is entertaining, any good, and/or has any artistic merit? Then read OUR TAKE of this film. (Note: The "Our Take" review of this title examines the film's artistic merits and does not take into account any of the possibly objectionable material listed below). OUR WORD TO PARENTS: Here's a brief summary of the content found in this drama that's been rated PG-13. Profanity consists of at least 30 "s" words, while other expletives and colorful phrases are uttered. Sexually related dialogue and some song lyrics are present, while various young couples are seen fooling around in several scenes (one of which features two separate couples in some rather steamy behavior in the same bedroom) and both young men and women are seen in revealing and/or skimpy attire in various scenes. All of the skateboarding and other "extreme sports" action may be enticing for some kids to imitate, as might other behavior (wild antics, teen drinking, manner of dress, etc.), while some of that results in bad falls and spills (but nothing too injurious). Some fighting occurs in several scenes, as does some property damage. Some of that material may be unsettling to some viewers, while various characters have varying degrees of bad attitudes. Various teens and others drink, some use drugs (and drug related comments are made) and some smoke. Finally, some tense family material is present in strained relationships between teens and parents or parent figures. Should you still be concerned about the film's appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home, you may want to look more closely at our detailed listings for more specific information regarding the film's content. For those prone to visually induced motion sickness, a great deal of the "you are there," documentary style, handheld camera footage will definitely affect some viewers. ALCOHOL OR DRUG USE A guy drinks and one may be smoking pot. Chino has a beer. Skip acts like he's drunk and/or high in his shop. Skip has a beer. Some of the older guys have beer while watching the younger guys perform. Skip drinks. A guy carries out what may be a pot plant, with Donnie telling the guy to cover it up before going out. Stacy's father drinks. Sid falls hard while skateboarding inside an empty swimming pool. He lies there and states that he can't feel his feet, but then adds that he never can as he puts what looks like an unlit joint in his mouth. We see beer by Skip and others. Many people drink at a party, including Skip and most of the young guys. There's a comment about being high. While drunk and upset about others stealing his skateboarders away from him, Skip tosses various surfboards off a roof (they break upon impact with the street below). He then drinks from a bottle and lies on the edge of the roof (with one side of his body dangling over the edge). We see a person drinking from a brown paper bag. A lot of drinking occurs at a party in Philaine's place (where she drinks and seems intoxicated). Some older guy at a party talks about growing his own "herb" (pot). Skip has a beer by him. Two adult manufacturers try to intimidate Sid. In turn, he refers to them as "coke-head freaks." Skip is drunk and carries a bottle in a brown paper bag. Jay then drinks from that. Seeing Tony's badly swollen eye, Topper tells him that they have all the "meds" he needs. Skip drinks whiskey from the bottle while working. Sid smokes a joint, saying it's for medicinal purposes (and it might be) and shares it with Jay. We see the subtitled question, "Can you bring me some herb?" In the end credits, we see that Jay served time in prison for drugs. BLOOD/GORE We briefly see one of the guys standing with his back to the camera, urinating (we don't see any or hear any related sound). After being punched, we see Tony wearing an eye patch and even later see his very bad looking eye that's swollen and with stitches around it. DISRESPECTFUL/BAD ATTITUDE Tony's father grabs him by the hair. Skip's friends won't allow Tony and his friends to surf the pier area until they're done. Skip puts together a skate team, but doesn't invite Stacy to be part of it (he later changes his mind). One of the guys jokingly refers to another as "gay boy." An official at a competition has a bad attitude toward Tony who in turn punches the official in the face. A scuffle breaks out and Skip punches another guy and looks ready to hit others. The guys throw food in a restaurant. The manager comes over and pulls one of the guys to the floor, with Skip trying to intervene, but getting punched, and the two have to be restrained. The guys wait for a family to go on vacation and then sneak onto their property to skateboard in the family's empty swimming pool. They and others then proceed to make a habit of that, trespassing at many properties (and are even inside in one). The guys and others flee from cops who respond to a trespassing call. One of the guys ends up skating into a cop, knocking him down. Tony's father is mean toward him and even throws something at him in his bedroom. Jay turns a gas station pump on and off to zero out the amount while he's filling a car. Skip shoplifts something from a store while exiting it. The guys may steal someone's car (it's hard to tell from the scene as it occurs). Jay steals Stacy's girlfriend away from him (although the latter wasn't showing much interest in her at the time). Various people move in on Skip's skateboard team members in hopes of luring them away from him. Chino has a bad attitude toward most of the younger guys, and he calls the young woman with him a "bitch." He also attacks Jay. Some of the guys develop slight bad attitudes (competitive) toward each other as fame separates them. Two adult manufacturers try to intimidate Sid. In turn, he refers to them as "coke-head freaks." We hear allegations that the pier where the guys used to hang out was purposefully burned. Stacy and his date see what look like a bunch of gang bangers approaching them at night in a deserted parking lot. One throws a bottle to the lot and another menacingly approaches the two and pushes Stacy, but Jay turns out to be with that group and calls off the attack and/or robbery. Jay throws a large cinderblock through the window of a parked car. One guy mockingly refers to other guys as "girls." FRIGHTENING SCENES Some of the fight scenes listed under "Violence" might be unsettling or suspenseful to some viewers, but beyond the one listed below, they're not too bad. Chino punches Jay and then kicks him many times on the ground. Jay finally gets up and cracks Chino on the head with his skateboard, knocking out the older guy. Stacy and his date see what look like a bunch of gang bangers approaching them at night in a deserted parking lot. One throws a bottle to the lot and another menacingly approaches the two and pushes Stacy, but Jay turns out to be with that group and calls off the attack and/or robbery. GUNS/WEAPONS A starter's pistol is fired. IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR Phrases: "You scared the sh*t out of me," "Sh*t, dude," "Sh*t-hole," "No sh*t," "You guys look bad as sh*t," "Cover that sh*t up," "Pulling this sh*t," "What kind of sh*t is that?" "Who gives a sh*t," "Don't mean sh*t," "That's bullsh*t," "Sh*t-load," "Can't skate for sh*t," "I feel like sh*t," "You look like sh*t," "You want to bone me" (have sex), "Laid" (sexual), "D*ckhead," "Don't screw up," "You little maggot," "Far out," "Shut up," "Suck my inner ear, gay boy," "Frickin,'" "Dirty ass," "Bro," "Kicks ass," "Stoked," "Shut up, dork," "You're an idiot," "Balls" (testicles), "This is way too gnarly," "Pigs" and "Bitch" (police), "Sitting on my ass," "You just got patty slapped," "Get off your ass," "Kiss my ass," "Hell yeah," "Crappy," "Coke-head freaks," "Bastards," "Screw the team," "Chrome-dome" and "What are you girls waiting for?" (said to guys). All of the skateboarding (including flying down roads, etc.) and various stunts and tricks may be enticing for some kids to imitate. The young guys basically act wild and rambunctious all of the time. We see miscellaneous graffiti. Stacy sneaks out of his house at night. One of the guys skateboards down the street barefoot and purposefully knocks over or overturns various things alone his route. He times it so that he just goes through a light that has just turned green, but then wipes out hard on the road. Various guys (on their surfboards) shoot through and around a pier's pilings while surfing. Three of the guys skateboard behind a bus by holding onto the back of it as it goes down the road. They then zip through moving and stopped traffic on their skateboards once free of the bus. One of the guys jokingly refers to another as "gay boy." Skip skips to the front of a registration line with his team and then bribes a guard to allow them to stay (he flashes a lot of money, but ends up only giving the guard one dollar). Some miscellaneous girls wear midriff-revealing tops, some of which also show cleavage. The guys throw food in a restaurant. The manager comes over and pulls one of the guys to the floor, with Skip trying to intervene, but getting punched, and the two then have to be restrained. Mad at Donnie who's left, Jay repeatedly stabs a kitchen knife into his surfboard and then breaks it apart. The guys wait for a family to go on vacation and then sneak onto their property to skateboard in the family's empty swimming pool. They and others then proceed to make a habit of that, trespassing at many properties (and are even inside in one). Sid falls hard while skateboarding inside an empty swimming pool. He lies there and states that he can't feel his feet, but then adds that he never can as he puts what looks like an unlit joint in his mouth. We see several young people standing on top of a moving car. One of the guys yells out to an older woman on the street, "Kiss me granny...get me some of that vintage ass." Tony hops off a wall and down onto a skateboard course (to make a dramatic and daring entrance). Various girls wear midriff-revealing tops. Jay turns a gas station pump on and off to zero out the amount while he's filling a car. Skip shoplifts something from a store while exiting it. The guys may steal someone's car (it's hard to tell from the scene as it occurs). Many people drink at a party, including Skip and most of the young guys. After a comment is made about "girls love the ass," Sid jokingly stuffs a banana down the front of his pants. A girl has a pierced nostril. Skip spits. While drunk Skip drinks from a bottle and lies on the edge of the roof (with one side of his body dangling over the edge). Jay skateboards through some enormous concrete construction "tubes." One of the guys skateboards over three Playboy bunnies (in standard attire, lying on the floor) at a party or event. Jay has some tattooed letters on his neck and seems to have turned into a skinhead. We see Jay skate off the end of a pier and into the ocean. We see Jay shaving his long hair down to his scalp. Topper has various tattoos. Jay throws a large cinderblock through the window of a parked car. Jay has a large zipper tattoo on his head. One guy mockingly refers to other guys as "girls." The guys wheel another guy in a wheelchair through an empty pool. JUMP SCENES None. MUSIC (SCARY/TENSE) None. MUSIC (INAPPROPRIATE) A song has lyrics about "voodoo child." A song has the lyric, "I just want to make love to you." A Jimi Hendrix song may contain sexual innuendo in the lyric "Let me stand next to your fire." The song "Cat Scratch Fever" has heavy sexual innuendo and double entendres in it. PROFANITY The "f" word is nearly said, while there are at least 30 "s" words, 3 slang terms for sex ("bone," "laid" and "bang"), 2 using slang for male genitals ("d*ck" and "inchworm"), 2 for breasts ("t*ts" and "t*tty"), 1 for female genitals as a double entendre ("p*ssy"), 17 asses (5 used with "hole"), 3 hells, 2 craps, 1 damn, 1 S.O.B., 4 uses of "Oh my God" and 1 use each of "Christ," "God" and "Jesus." SEX/NUDITY We see Donnie in bed with Philaine in the spoons position (no nudity or sexual activity). A song has the lyric, "I just want to make love to you." We see an illustration of a large-breasted woman (in a bikini) painted on a surfboard. We see Philaine in a bikini top that shows cleavage, while she has a towel around her waist. A young woman shows a little cleavage while bent over. Some miscellaneous girls wear midriff-revealing tops, some of which also show cleavage. After a female spectator tells Jay that he "blew me away," he jokingly says, "You want to bone me" and she replies, "Maybe." Skip tells Stacy (about a team t-shirt he just received), "That t-shirt will get you more t*tty than you ever dreamed of." The girl with Stacy says something about having that covered. We see a girl in a bikini straddling Tony's lap and he then dips her down toward the ground so that he's between her legs (and they do some passionate kissing). We see Kathy coming on to Stacy outside a party, working at his belt. He says not here, but she lies on the ground and kisses him, but he leaves. Jay then comes on to her, and she finally gives in to his persistence. We later see them back in her bedroom that she shares with Tony who's also there with another girl. Kathy works on Jay's pants/boxers and wants them off, but he's reluctant and Tony jokingly asks Jay if he doesn't have any hair on his "inchworm" (penis). We then see both partially unclothed couples going at it, passionately making out and rolling around on the separate beds (partially under the sheets and with Jay between Kathy's legs) in the shared bedroom. They're interrupted, and Jay and the other girl (in her bra and panties) hide, however, when they hear the siblings' father approaching. A Jimi Hendrix song may contain sexual innuendo in the lyric "Let me stand next to your fire." One of the guys yells out to an older woman on the street, "Kiss me granny...get me some of that vintage ass." The song "Cat Scratch Fever" has heavy sexual innuendo in it. We see Tony autographing a girl's bare upper thigh. We see the real Cher in a music video on TV where she's scantly clad. We see miscellaneous cleavage at a party. After a comment is made about "girls love the ass," Sid jokingly stuffs a banana down the front of his pants. Not long after that, a young woman comes on to him and says what sounded like her not wanting him to wear underwear around her. We later see them passionately making out, with her top open (showing a lot of cleavage that he's happy to see) and her telling him, "They're all yours." Afterwards (and presumably after and referring to sex with her) he states "I just found God." Tony states, "I want to get laid every night." Jay stares at a buxom woman coming on to him. We see Philaine in her bikini top again. One of the guys skateboards over three Playboy bunnies (in standard attire, lying on the floor) at a party or event. Throughout the film, there are various shots of young, shirtless men. We see some scantly clad, miscellaneous young women. One character says that if he dies, that another is to give his home to his mom. The other then jokes, "Only if she lets me see her t*ts" and then makes a mock groping gesture. Jay jokingly tells Sid, "I'll let you bang my mom." SMOKING Skip smokes more than 5 times, Tony smokes a cigar once, and various miscellaneous characters smoke in several scenes. TENSE FAMILY SCENES Tony's father grabs him by the hair. We see all sorts of stuff broken in Philaine's house, presumably from some unseen domestic violence and/or outburst. Donnie moves out (he may be Jay's stepfather or at least a father figure to him). Mad at Donnie who's left, Jay repeatedly stabs a kitchen knife into his surfboard and then breaks it apart. Tony's father is mean toward him and even throws something at him in his bedroom. TOPICS TO TALK ABOUT The real life guys who popularized the sport and essentially created the concept of extreme sports. What fame and fortune do to people (both those who have it and those who want to capitalize on it). We hear that Donnie is a Vietnam vet. Mad at Donnie who's left, Jay repeatedly stabs a kitchen knife into his surfboard and then breaks it apart. Jay steals Stacy's girlfriend away from him (although the latter wasn't showing much interest in her at the time). We see a transvestite who's with Topper's entourage. We hear that one of the characters is sick and has brain cancer (we later see him with a partially shaved head from a recent surgery that's left some scars). VIOLENCE Tony's father grabs him by the hair. One of the guys skateboards down the street barefoot and purposefully knocks over or overturns various things alone his route. He times it so that he just goes through a light that has just turned green, but then wipes out hard on the road. One of the guys slams into a pier piling while surfing. We hear the sound of something breaking on the street from something unseen the young guys have done (we then see them running). We see footage of some of the young guys falling hard while skateboarding. We see all sorts of stuff broken in Philaine's house, presumably from some unseen domestic violence and/or outburst. An official at a competition has a bad attitude toward Tony who in turn punches the official in the face. A scuffle breaks out and Skip punches another guy and looks ready to hit others. The guys throw food in a restaurant. The manager comes over and pulls one of the guys to the floor, with Skip trying to intervene, but getting punched, and the two then have to be restrained. Mad at Donnie who's left, Jay repeatedly stabs a kitchen knife into his surfboard and then breaks it apart. The various guys all have bad falls while skateboarding in an empty swimming pool. Sid falls hard while skateboarding inside an empty swimming pool. He lies there and states that he can't feel his feet, but then adds that he never can as he puts what looks like an unlit joint in his mouth. A man comes home to find the guys in his house. He then chases them off the property with a golf club, but one of the guys throws what looks like a lemon that hits the homeowner on the head, causing him to fall and tumble down a hill. The guys and others flee from cops who respond to a trespassing call. One of the guys ends up skating into a cop, knocking him down. Skip kicks a van in anger when his workers leave work. Tony's father is mean toward him and even throws something at him in his bedroom. Chino punches Jay and then kicks him many times on the ground. Jay finally gets up and cracks Chino on the head with his skateboard, knocking out the older guy. While drunk and upset about others stealing his skateboarders away from him, Skip tosses various surfboards off a roof (they break upon impact with the street below). We see a person bursting out through a plate glass widow from a rave-type party where there is a lot of pushing and shoving to loud, blaring music. Tony and another skateboarder accidentally run into each other during a performance/contest. Tony then punches that guy in the face who returns a punch that sends Tony to the floor. We later see Tony wearing an eye patch and even later see his very bad looking eye that's swollen and with stitches around it. Stacy and his date see what look like a bunch of gang bangers approaching them at night in a deserted parking lot. One throws a bottle to the lot and another menacingly approaches the two and pushes Stacy, but Jay turns out to be with that group and calls off the attack and/or robbery. Jay throws a large cinderblock through the window of a parked car. Reviewed May 17, 2005 / Posted June 3, 2005

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