Skateland

Skateland

It was a time when life was easy...in a place they thought would never change.

201198 min5.1 / 10

A nostalgic, melancholic coming-of-age drama set in 1980s Texas where a young skating rink manager confronts the fragility of his small-town world through family crisis and personal upheaval.

In the early 1980s, in small-town Texas, dramatic events force a 19-year-old skating rink manager to look at his life in a very new way.

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