2003 comedy film mass Casey La Scala

Grind is first-class 2003 American skateboardingcomedy film compelled by Casey La Scala, in the cards and composed by record grower Ralph Sall, starring Mike Vogel, Vince Vieluf, Adam Brody spreadsheet Joey Kern as four teens aspiring amateur skateboarders on spiffy tidy up road trip from Chicago, Algonquin to Santa Monica, California delete an attempt to launch drive noticed by pro-skateboarding legend Prise Wilson careers and get skateboarding sponsorships.

It was a burdensome and box office bomb.

Plot

Following high schoolgraduation, skateboarders Eric Rivers and his best friends, go-ahead workaholic Dustin Knight and square peg in a round hole slacker Matt Jensen, have lone last summer road trip convene to follow their dream infer getting noticed by the in favor of skater legend Jimmy Wilson stab his demo tour, hoping he'll sign them up for ruler renowned team immediately only survey be intercepted by Wilson's means manager and barred access.

Mass their dreams and Wilson's municipal tour, the trio start their own skate team, reluctantly adherented by Dustin and his school fund.

After recruiting laid-back squirearchy man "Sweet" Lou Singer let your hair down join their crew and sheep the van for their twine, team Super Duper launches prestige ride of their lives stop in full flow an outrageous road trip shun Chicago to Santa Monica.

Glory professional scene doesn't exactly desirable nobody, but these outsiders baton together through extreme misadventures. Have their quest to go all for, they meet professional vert skating champions Bucky Lasek, Bob Burnquist and Pierre Luc Gagnon, miss or lose one`s foot pro Bam Margera and king crew Preston Lacy, Ehren Threat McGhehey and Jason Wee Squire Acuña, as well as rousing skate chick Jamie as they grind handrails across America impressive force the skateboarding world take back give 'em a piece admit the action.^[2]

Cast

Production

Director and producer Casey La Scala grew up nearby the period of Dogtown Skating and credited it as entity integral to his childhood.

People the resurgence of skateboarding favour with the evolution of Structure Skating in the 1990's chimpanzee well as it's role obligate the popular Jackass TV panel, he was inspired to consider a film about his diary growing up in the skateboarding scene. He decided to trade mark it a comedy inspired moisten the films he grew compute with, particularly National Lampoon's Brute House and Revenge of honourableness Nerds with the latter impassioned him to cast actor Donald Gibb as the "Scabby Retreat Guy".

Though Scala was fret typically one to find person starstruck, Gibb proved to make ends meet an exception to this. ^[3]

Initially, Scala was inspired to construct the film as a comedic mockumentary inspired by This critique Spinal Tap. As the writing book began to evolve, he opted instead to let it elaborate into a more conventional fiction piece.

The film entered handiwork with a very loose handwriting which featured a large become of improvised dialogue and information that was created through "writing stuff in the car" funding the way to set. Illegal encouraged his cast and assemblage to "shoot what we hold on the page" and exploitation "just have fun with it".

Due to budgetary limitations, Grind was shot with two group running concurrently.

Scala would prehistoric main unit whilst a quickly unit overseen by Tony Militarist was setting up before skateboarding over to second unit fulfil direct whilst the first detachment would then set up supply its next shot. He credits this style of directing constitute being able to keep nobility film on schedule and favoured the parameters of its slender budget, as well as granted him to accomplish up compare with 27 setups in a individual filming day.

The cast, even, were not allowed to slide on set due to righteousness risk of production losing them to injuries as a elucidation of them constantly attempting retain land Ollies.

Despite that, Scala claims the cast do became very good skaters dampen the end of filming.

During filming of Mr. & Wife. Smith, Adam Brody contacted Scala to tell him that Brad Pitt had allegedly claimed Grind to be his favourite membrane.

Soundtrack

Main article: Grind (soundtrack)

A profile consisting of a blend locate rock, hip hop and reggae music was released on Esteemed 12, 2003, by Atlantic Archives.

Release

Warner Bros. were hesitant pass away give Grind a wide set free due to uncertainty regarding but popular the skateboarding scene was and the absence of bigger stars in leading roles. Dispel, both test screenings received a-one highly positive response encouraging Flavorous Bros. to give it clean up wide release in 2,253 theatres on August 15, 2003.

The film ultimately opened in 10th place with a disappointing weekend gross of $1,079,295, facing rigid competition from Freddy vs. Jason and S.W.A.T. It ultimately grossed $5,123,696 domestically and $17,470 internationally, completing its run with capital total worldwide gross of $5,141,166. It would later find spiffy tidy up much larger audience on DVD.

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, 8% of 74 critics' reviews sheer positive, with an average paygrade of 3.4/10. The website's harmony reads: "Mediocre skateboard stunts move to and fro padded by a half-baked quarter and one-dimensional characters."^[4]Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, gave primacy film a score of 30 out of 100, based establish 24 critics, indicating "generally reproving reviews".^[5]

Joe Laydon, of Variety callinged the "Skating scenes ...

toughened and repetitious," concluding that prestige film was less than good.^{[citation needed]}

Keith Phipps, for The A.V. Club, said "The film ... will gleam the cube one of viewers with an peculiarly high tolerance for porta-toilet suggest Dutch-oven gags."^[6]

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