''The End'' is a 1998 skateboarding film from
Birdhouse Skateboards
Birdhouse Skateboards (originally Birdhouse Projects) is a skateboard company formed by ex-Powell Peralta professional skateboarders Tony Hawk and Per Welinder in 1992.
Birdhouse makes decks and wheels, as well as clothing and accessories.
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. It was made under the direction of Jamie Mosberg, who also produced and edited it. The original movie was released in 1998, but the movie was re-released in 2001.
Plot
There is no real plot that runs throughout this
documentary. Instead, each skater was placed into their segment to showcase their skills. Some of the skaters also incorporated a short story into their segments. Some of these story lines include McCrank looking for a job, Berra being killed by an unknown attacker, Reynolds hanging out with an orangutan, Kirchart and Klein's rampaging mayhem in the city and Lasek taking down Hawk so that Lasek can become the number one skateboarder.
Cast
(in order of appearance)
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Rick McCrank
Rick McCrank (born January 23, 1976) is a Canadian professional skateboarder, television host, skate shop owner, and skate company co-owner.
Early life
McCrank was born in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, but grew up in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Willy Santos
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Andrew Reynolds
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Brian Sumner
Brian Sumner is a British skateboarder, Christian pastor and traveling evangelist, originally from Liverpool, England. Sumner came to America at age 15, to pursue a career as a professional skateboarder. He currently resides in Huntington Be ...
- Am montage
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Ali Cairns - Am montage
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Jeff Lenoce - Am montage
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Steve Berra
Steve Berra (born May 10, 1973) is an American professional skateboarder and director, and is also the cofounder/co-owner of the skateboarding website The Berrics.
Early life
Berra grew up in both Nebraska and Missouri and he explained in 2007 t ...
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Jeremy Klein
Jeremy Klein (born July 12, 1971, in Torrance, California) is an American artist and former professional skateboarder.
Professional skateboarding
Klein rose to prominence as one of the original riders for Steve Rocco's World Industries company. ...
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Heath Kirchart
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Tony Hawk
Anthony Frank Hawk (born May 12, 1968), nicknamed Birdman, is an American professional skateboarder, entrepreneur, and the owner of the skateboard company Birdhouse. A pioneer of modern vertical skateboarding, Hawk completed the first documen ...
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Bucky Lasek
Charles Michael "Bucky" Lasek ( ; born December 3, 1972) is an American professional skateboarder and rallycross driver.
Career
Professional skateboarding
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Lasek started skateboarding at the age of 12, shortly af ...
Featuring
Janine Lindemulder
Janine Lindemulder is an American nude model, former exotic dancer and retired pornographic actress. She is best known for her work in American pornographic films (typically credited mononymously as Janine) during the mid-1990s and since a 200 ...
and
Kobe Tai
Kobe Tai is an American pornographic actress.
Pornographic film career
Tai was a contract performer with Vivid Entertainment. In 2011, ''Complex'' ranked her first on its list of "The Top 50 Hottest Asian Porn Stars of All Time".
Mainstream ap ...
- Appearance in Jeremy Klein and Heath Kirchart's dream sequence.
Special Edition
In 2001, a special edition of ''The End'' became available for
VHS and
DVD
The DVD (common abbreviation for Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. The medium can store any kin ...
. The DVD came with many special features such as a "making of" featurette, photo gallery, remastered audio, additional and old footage, board gallery and audio commentary with the option of adding in picture-in-picture with ''The End'' and the filmed commentary session with the Birdhouse team. The VHS version however only included the "making of" featurette.
References
External links
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Review @ amazon.com
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1998 films
Skateboarding videos