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Gleaming the Cube

Gleaming the Cube

Jan 13, 1989
106 min
CrimeThrillerAction
6.0/ 10
138 votes

Overview

An Orange County teenager's carefree life of ditching class and skateboarding abandoned pools comes to a screeching halt when someone close to him dies. The cops rule the death a suicide, but the bereaved skater believes he was murdered. It's up to him to solve the case, with a skateboard.

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TMDB
6.0/10
138 votes
IMDB
6.3/10
9,293 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
29%
Tomatometer
Metacritic
M
40/100
Metascore

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Box Office & Budget

Budget$10,000,000Production cost
Box Office$2,777,280Worldwide gross
Profit-$7,222,720Loss
ROI
-72.2%Return on investment
US Box Office$2,777,280Domestic earnings

Details

Production information

"All he cared about was gleaming the cube...until the night they killed his brother."

Status

Released

Original Language

en

Budget

$10,000,000

Revenue

$2,777,280

Production Companies

Gladden EntertainmentThe Turman-Foster Company

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