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      Hardflip

      PG-13 2012 1h 53m Drama List
      Reviews 56% 100+ Ratings Audience Score After his mother falls ill, a troubled young skateboarder (Randy Wayne) sets out to find the father (John Schneider) he never really knew. Read More Read Less

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      amy a I'm pretty sure this film was written and produced by a 13-year-old. Caleb, a boy of about 16 or 17 years old, is this phenomenal skateboarder, but is a loner. He doesn't seem to have friends. He wants no part of the other bully-skateboarders, one of whom taunt a homeless man. The homeless man is some wise Saint who holds up Jesus signs, and who, in the end, advises Caleb. Caleb lives alone with his mother in a modest apartment. He is verbally cruel to her because she's rarely home. She's rarely home because she works two jobs to pay the bills. She struggles financially. She is kind to Caleb and tried hard to form a relationship with him, but he wants nothing to do with this, and his harsh to her. He needs a slap. SPOILER ALERTS AHEAD: (but it doesn't matter because this film isn't really worth watching) Meanwhile, the mother has cancer that somehow gives her headaches, and she collapses from it while Caleb is being super mean to her. Caleb finds her on the floor, then does a 180 (with his emotions, not with his skateboard), and does a hardflip by being loving to her instead of being mean and hateful to her. But don't worry... he becomes mean and hateful to his rich father, who he's never met. I guess Caleb has to be mean and hateful to SOMEone. Caleb's mother told him that she was romantic with a guy, got pregnant, then never saw the guy again. She lied to protect him (then later realized this was a mistake). Caleb finds love letters that his father wrote to his mother before he was born (easy to find... in a drawer... funny how Caleb never found the letters before). He also finds checks from his father to his mother, checks she never cashed even tho she was being evicted. Caleb seeks out his father, Jack, who works in a billion-dollar architectural firm. Jack is so Scrooge-like to his employees, it's comical. Everyone paints Jack as being this SUPER busy executive, but Jack mostly stares out his gigantic office window looking at the city-scene. When he's not doing that, he spends time visiting Caleb's mother in the hospital (which looks more like a living room), or trying to reach Caleb, or yelling at his subordinate, which is also comical. The one good point about the film is a minor character called Joey. Joey is the only person in the film who can act. He gets tossed around by the bully skateboarders, but the way he takes it and lets a lot of it slide off his shoulders is truly funny. There was way too much music thrown into the film, but I guess that what tweens like. Also, the sound track was off, which didn't really bother me, but the film looked like they used a budget cellphone to video all the scenes. Not bad, for a 13-year-old's school project. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member anyone involved in making of this... "movie" should think of doing something else, or nothing at all ever again. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member Good story of redemption. I wasn't so interested in the skateboarding though. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member It is a great movie for people who like skateboarding but it deals with with some topics, that are a little hard to deal with. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Great potential, but fell short in the acting department and the poorly developed plot. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member I watched 5 mins of this movie and knew it was genius. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis After his mother falls ill, a troubled young skateboarder (Randy Wayne) sets out to find the father (John Schneider) he never really knew.
      Director
      Johnny Remo
      Producer
      Allan Camaisa, Megan Camaisa, Johnny Remo
      Screenwriter
      Daniel Backman, Johnny Remo
      Production Co
      Skipstone Pictures
      Rating
      PG-13 (Mature Thematic Material|Teen Drug and Alcohol Content)
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Nov 30, 2016
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $96.7K
      Runtime
      1h 53m
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