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Tina angrily confronts her father about the conspiracy, who is shamed by his involvement and contacts Lawndale to end the operation. A distressed Tina spends the night with Brian instead and discovers a lighter belonging to her father in Brian's room, leading Brian to explain all his suspicions to her. However, the incident causes Trac to panic and send his wife and daughter away to his brother's house.
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Following in his brother's footsteps, Brian sneaks into Lawndale's warehouse and uncovers a shipping crate full of weapons.īrian causes an explosion at the warehouse and plants evidence to incriminate Trac, but Lucero immediately suspects Brian and admonishes him for the act. He attends one of VACRF's social functions, where he notices Lawndale and learns of his connection to Trac and Westpac. After an image makeover, Brian asks her out on a date and the two become closer. Suspicious of Colonel Trac, Brian reaches out to Trac's daughter Tina, a fellow high school student and Vinh's ex-girlfriend. While skeptical, Lucero offers to look into it. Brian tries to convince Detective Al Lucero that his brother did not commit suicide. Brian flees to notify the police, but they find no trace of the crime and later learn that Nguyen supposedly arrived in Thailand.
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Brian sneaks into the backseat of Nguyen’s car and witnesses a meeting with Trac and Lawndale, in which Nguyen demands $50,000 and a ticket to Bangkok at gunpoint, but a struggle ensues and Lawndale kills Nguyen. Looking for someone to translate it, he encounters Bobby Nguyen who starts to follow him. They hang Vinh's body from a noose, so the police deem it a suicide.Īfter the funeral, Brian finds the list of medical supplies Vinh was investigating, written in Vietnamese. Convinced that Vinh poses no threat to their operation, Trac intends to set him free, but Vinh is accidentally strangled to death by Nguyen. When Colonel Trac arrives, it is revealed that he and Lawndale are conspirators in a scheme to smuggle illegal weapons to Vietnam. Vinh is interrogated by Lawndale and Bobby Nguyen, another of Colonel Trac's employees, at a motel. Undeterred, Vinh sneaks into Westpac Medical Supplies, the warehouse handling VACRF's shipping, but is apprehended by owner Ed Lawndale. When Vinh discovers a suspicious inaccuracy in VACRF's shipping records, he brings it to his boss Colonel Trac, who fires Vinh when he tries to investigate.
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The only person in the family Brian can relate to is his adopted Vietnamese brother Vinh, who works as a shipping clerk for the Vietnamese Anti-Communist Relief Fund (VACRF), an organization which sends medical supplies to Vietnam. An avid skateboarder, Brian is frequently at odds with his parents for his increasingly reckless behavior, which has landed him in jail on more than one occasion. The DVD contains an easter egg by highlighting the skateboard on the main menu, viewers can watch a short featurette entitled "What Does Gleaming the Cube Mean?".īrian Kelly is an underachieving high school student in Orange County, California. In the film, Christian Slater's character defines "gleaming the cube" as "pushing your limits to the edge". The title of the film refers to the cryptic question "Have you ever gleemed inside a cube?" that Garry Scott Davis (GSD) asked Neil Blender in an interview in the December 1983 issue of Thrasher magazine.
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Although the film had a relatively low box office turnout, it garnered a significant cult following after its theatrical release, through basic cable replays on networks such as USA and the burgeoning VHS (and later DVD) market, as well as among skateboarders. The film received a moderate release in the United States from 20th Century Fox (in 469 theaters). Future lead singer of The Aquabats and creator of Yo Gabba Gabba!, Christian Jacobs, also appears in the film as Gremic. Tony Hawk (Buddy) and Tommy Guerrero (Sam), then members of the Bones Brigade, appear in the film as members of Brian's skate crew. Among the skateboarders who appear in the film as stunt skaters are Mike McGill, Mark "Gator" Rogowski, Rodney Mullen, Rich Dunlop, Eric Dressen, Lance Mountain, Mike Vallely, Chris Black, Ted Ehr, Natas Kaupas, Chris Borst, and Steve Saiz. The skating technical advisor for the film was original Z-Boy Stacy Peralta. Gleaming the Cube (also known as A Brother's Justice and Skate or Die released in the Philippines as Challenge to Win Again) is a 1989 American neo-noir film directed by Graeme Clifford and starring Christian Slater as Brian Kelly, a 16-year-old skateboarder investigating the death of his adopted Vietnamese brother.