Skateland (2010)

Skateland (2010). Skateland: Directed by Anthony Burns. With Shiloh Fernandez, Ashley Greene, Heath Freeman, Brett Cullen. In the early 1980s, in small-town Texas, dramatic events force a 19-year-old skating rink manager to look at his life in a very new way.

“The eighties music was wonderful in addition to a solid production design team and a good cast. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe film had some very charming and humorous moments. I believe the film would have benefited by sticking to its comic explorations of the era and interpersonal dynamics of its main characters and sub characters.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe dramatic essence of the film did not work for me. I did not feel vested in the characters enough to care about several of the u0026quot;tragicu0026quot; circumstances explored by the filmmakers. At one point the soundtrack explodes before and during a chase sequence that I found out of sorts.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI feel with some additional sound and visual editing this charming film can be made ready for a larger distribution.”