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Released
1989 · FILM

Gleaming the Cube

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

Directed by
Graeme Clifford
Written by
Michael Tolkin
Runtime
106 min
ActionDramaMystery
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

An Orange County teenager's carefree life of skipping class and skateboarding abandoned pools comes to a sudden end after someone close to him dies. Authorities classify the death as a suicide, but the grieving skater is convinced it was a murder. Determined to uncover the truth, he takes on the case using his skateboard as his main tool.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by John WrightShot by Reed SmootScored by Jay FergusonDesigned by John Muto

Box Office

1989 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$2.8M

Budget$10.0M
Worldwide gross$2.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $741K — 27% of its US run.

Peak 466 theaters

Also known as

  • Gleaming Heartde
  • Rebellen auf Skateboardsde
  • Al filo del abismoes
  • California Skateit

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