Gleaming the Cube (1989)

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

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.

• Released: 1989-01-13
• Genres: Crime, Thriller, Action
• Runtime: 1h 46m
• Status: Released
• TMDB rating: 6.0/10 from 147 votes

Directed by Graeme Clifford.

Top cast

• Christian Slater as Brian Kelly
• Steven Bauer as Al Lucero
• Richard Herd as Ed Lawndale
• Ed Lauter as Mr. Kelly
• Le Tuan as Colonel Trac
• Peter Kwong as Bobby Nguyen
• Charles Cyphers as Harvey McGill
• Micole Mercurio as Mrs. Kelly
• Min Luong as Tina Trac
• Art Chudabala as Vinh Kelly

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Where to watch Gleaming the Cube

• United States: stream on Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, YouTube TV, Amazon Prime Video with Ads; watch free on Hoopla; rent on Amazon Video; buy on Amazon Video
• United Kingdom: stream on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads; rent on Amazon Video; buy on Amazon Video
• Canada: watch free on Hoopla

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