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Valley boys take on the punk rockers in this teen-age adventure.

This time they use skateboards instead of zip guns, knives and fists. The rich Valley kids, “The Ramp Locals,” are led by Corey Webster, while the leather-clad, street-wise punks follow Tommy Hook. The trouble begins when Corey falls in love with Tommy’s little sister who has come from Indiana for a visit. The rivalry between the gangs culminates during the grueling “LA Massacre,” a 20-mile downhill skateboarding race. The winning team will earn a corporate sponsor. For the final race, the filmmakers strapped a camera in front of a skateboard to give viewers a sense of the thrills experienced by the daring “thrashers.”

Starring :

Josh Brolin, Robert Rusler, Pamela Gidley

Meet some of the hottest stars from the world of action sports. This look at extreme athletes was directed by Tamra Davis (CROSSROADS, HALF-BAKED) and features Mike Basich, Tina Basich, Steve Berra, Mat Hoffman, Andy Irons, Mike D and many, many more.

It’s not hard to find extreme sports documentaries on DVD, but Keep Your Eyes Open is a cut above the norm. Hollywood director Tamra Davis (Billy Madison, Half Baked) brings to the genre a new polish, intellectual curiosity, and singularly interesting eye for unexplored camera angles and fresh visual settings. The subject is a little different, too: Keep Your Eyes Open concerns uniquely gifted athletes with a penchant for superior focus. They don’t keep an eye on competitors, and they contemplate possible injury as something not to avoid but to predict. The talent roster includes skateboarders Eric Koston and Steve Berra, extraordinary skier Seth Morrison, 17-year-old motorcycle champion Travis Pastrana (who seems to dance with his bike while suspended in space), and hot-tempered surfer Sunny Garcia (whose fight for survival, learned on the tough side of Oahu, informs his sharp skills riding waves). Davis’s husband, Mike D, makes an amusing cameo appearance as a security guard. –Tom Keogh

This film by Stacy Peralta focuses on Steve Caballero, Tommy Guerrero, Tony Hawk, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain and Rodney Mullen.

“The Bones Brigade was a talented gang of teenage outcasts. Unmotivated by fame or popularity, they completely dedicated their lives to a disrespected art form. For most of the 1980s, this misfit crew headed by a 1970s ex-skateboard champion blasted the industry with a mixture of art and raw talent becoming the most popular skateboarding team in history.

The core unit of the Bones Brigade built an empire that covered the world. They dominated contests, made hundreds of thousands of dollars, created the modern skateboard video, reinvented endemic advertising, pushed skate progression into a new era, and set the stage for a totally new form of skating called street style. There’s nothing comparable in today’s skateboarding”

Random Quotes From Bones Brigade: An Autobiography:

• “I didn’t like his [Hawk’s] style. He was just an annoying little fucking kid with way too many pads on.” -Duane Peters
• “Stecyk and I are spitballing ideas one day and I’m telling him that I don’t want to call this a team and I don’t want the word skateboarding in the name of it. Craig looks at me and says, ‘Bones Brigade.'” -Stacy Peralta
• “They asked Cab, ‘Could you hold this dead dog for an ad?’ He said, ‘Aw, I don’t want to do it.’ I said, ‘I’ll do it!’ I was Mikey that got all the cool stuff that they thought was lame.” -Lance Mountain
• “What makes us all do what we do at a high level is an inspiration that comes from so deep… almost a controlled desperation and if you can’t tap into that then it extinguishes.” -Rodney Mullen
• “The prize money for first at a pro contest was $150, but I was fourteen-years-old! Sign me up. I’m cashing in. I’m going to buy a Moped!” -Tony Hawk
• “We were in a van once and frightened… these kids are going to kill us! They were [screaming] ‘We love you!” We were like, ‘Wait a second! Let us get out of the van before you tip it over and light it on fire!'” -Tommy Guerrero
• “Was there ever a skatepark designed that was as good as an average sewer or curb? No.” -Craig Stecyk III