Teen life at grad time in small-town Texas in the ’80s. The sense of a pregnant pause before adulthood is symbolized by a doomed skate center, echoing the dying theater in The Last Picture Show but less resonant than the skating hall in Zebrahead. Drawing on their own past, director Anthony Burns and his fellow writers have good photography by Peter Simonite, as well as a capable cast led by Shiloh Fernandez as a sensitive stud and sly Heath Freeman as his racing, party-dude pal. But everything goes as proven formula demands, the generic movie clichés having already been milled to grist by television. (2011) — David Elliott
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