It isn't what television or movies represent, but this documentary does. Minding The Gap - Movie Review. On 'The Hart Beat', Chris Hartwell reviews Minding the Gap.

Minding the Gap movie reviews & Metacritic score: Welcome to Rockford, Illinois, in the heart of Rust-Belt America, home to debut filmmaker Bing Liu. Parents need to know that Minding the Gap is an Oscar-nominated documentary made by one of three skateboarding friends about their friendship and the way coming from abusive homes brought and kept them together. "Minding the Gap," which is brilliantly edited by Liu and Joshua Altman, has a floating, grab-bag style that collapses the time frame into a kind of momentum-driven arc, but while the pieces are often bite-sized, and not always delineated by a year or person's age, the collage has a distinctive chronological. Keire Johnson and Jack Mulligan in the 'remarkable' Minding the Gap.

Minding the Gap

Watch a trailer for Minding the Gap. All this makes Minding the Gap seem bleak, but the film unwittingly flips itself back into position all the time, like a skateboarder might, to land on the sunny side of the street. In the case of Zack, it has to do with his ability to mostly laugh off his troubles. "It's hard to get who Zack actually is," says Keire in a. Boys become men in Minding the Gap, Bing Liu's perceptive new documentary filmed in his hometown of Rockford, Illinois—where, as snippets of newscast inform But what also resonate are the problems skating can't solve—the things Minding the Gap is ultimately about. Minding the Gap: An American Skateboarding Story. This movie suggests a reason I had never considered before: I was fortunate enough not to have something to try to escape from.

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Zack, Keire and Bing — a trio from Rockford, Illinois — grew up skateboarding together, a bond that's allowed them to escape difficult times during adolescence. It chronicles the lives and friendships of three young men growing up in Rockford, Illinois, united by their love of skateboarding. The film received critical acclaim. 'Minding the Gap': Film Review

Watch the trailer for Minding the Gap here: Movie and show review. FILMED in Rockford, Illinois, Minding The Gap is a documentary about three skateboarder mates growing up together and eventually growing apart. Jobs are hard, money is tight and everyone has had a terrible time at some point - expertly teased out in the way only a best friend asking the questions. And as it came time for them to become men, the question was would they do any better.