Skateland

Movie: Skateland

Genre: Drama

Synopsis: This movie is set in a small Texas town in the early 80’s.  Ritchie Wheeler (Shiloh Fernandez) and Michelle Burkham are recent high school grads.  Ritchie is content to be the assistant manager of the local roller rink.  His sort-of-girlfriend has bigger plans for her life and would like Ritchie to figure out what he wants to do.  When the roller rink goes out of business, Ritchie is forced to rethink his life.  The movie follows Ritchie and his friends as he tries to figure out what it is that he wants out of life.

My two cents: Some great nostalgic stuff here: MTV back when they actually showed music videos, instamatic cameras, vinyl records, cassettes. It was interesting to watch Ritchie struggle to understand what Michelle wanted from him . . . but the way the movie resolved this and their relationship just  did not make a lot of sense to me.  Color me disappointed.

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