Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Ashley GreeneMichelle Burkham
- Shiloh FernandezRitchie Wheeler
- Brett CullenDavid Wheeler
- Taylor HandleyKenny Crawford
- Heath FreemanBrent Burkham
- Melinda McGrawDebbie Wheeler
- Haley RammMary Wheeler
- A.J. BuckleyTeddy Tullos
- Ellen HollmanDeana Trammel
- James Le GrosClive Burkham
Recommendations
- 80
Boxoffice Magazine
Burns captures the look and spirit of the times with perfect detail. - 75
Movieline
Burns handles the more dramatic moments - divorce, accidental death, betrayal - with invention, using abrupt cuts and impressionistic editing to keep the film from settling into a rut. - 70
Los Angeles Times
Not on the same artistic level as "The Last Picture Show" yet has its own integrity and value - and a fine array of performances. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
The film hinges on too many conventional crises (a car accident, a divorce), but the fact that Burns is better at atmosphere than story isn't all bad. - 60
The New York Times
Though leaning too heavily on period tunes and the templates of Mr. Linklater and John Hughes (to whom the film is dedicated), Mr. Burns has a distinctly spacious style that gives female characters room to breathe. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Skateland is every coming-of-age-after-high-school movie you've ever seen with a formulaic plot and well-worn characters. - 50
The A.V. Club
If he were even a fraction as appealing to the audience as he so mysteriously is to everyone in the film, Skateland would be much more engaging. - 40
Variety
This wan, mundane coming-of-ager focuses on kids enacting a pale imitation of '50s car-centered, "American Graffiti"-style time-killing, with the impediment of exceptionally dull dialogue.
