In the 1970s, a group of teenage surfers from a tough neighborhood known as "Dogtown" in Venice, California pioneered a revolutionary new style of skateboarding. Riding the waves at the Pacific Ocean Park pier, the Z-Boyz, known for their aggressive style and hard street attitude, combined the death-defying moves of surfing with the art of skateboarding and became overnight sensations and local legends.

With empty pools as their canvas, the Z-boyz paved the way to what is now referred to as "extreme sports," and created a lifestyle that spread infectiously to beomce a worldwide counterculture phenomenon. But all of this fame would take its toll on the friendships that they thought would last a lifetime as the sport that started out as an afternoon hobby turned into big business.

Directed by
Catherine Hardwicke

Cast
Heath Ledger - Skip Engblom
Alexis Arquette - Comedian Tranny
John Robinson - Stacy Peralta
Victor Rasuk - Tony Alva
Emile Hirsch - Jay Adams
Nikki Reed - Kathy Alva
Johnny Knoxville - Topper Burks
America Ferrera - Thunder Monkey
Pablo Schreiber - Stecyk
Elden Henson - Billy Z
Michael Angarano - Sid
Eddie Cahill  - Larry Gordon
Shea Whigham - Drake Landon
Rebecca De Mornay - Philaine
William Mapother - Donnie
Julio Oscar Mechoso - Mr . Alva

Production Co.
Signature Films
Indelible Pictures

Produced by
Kareem Elseify
Ginger Sledge
John Linson
Art Linson
Joe Drake

Studio
Columbia Pictures

Writer
Stacy Peralta

Music
Mark Mothersbaugh