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A documentary exploring the rise and fall of 80s skateboard legend Mark "Gator" Rogowski.A documentary exploring the rise and fall of 80s skateboard legend Mark "Gator" Rogowski.A documentary exploring the rise and fall of 80s skateboard legend Mark "Gator" Rogowski.
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Mark 'Gator' Rogowski,: I am a skater. I live it, breathe it, I sleep with it.
- ConnectionsReferences Skatevisions (1984)
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A lurid tale from the inside of skate culture history
Mark `Gator' Ragowski (later `Mark Anthony' briefly) rode his skateboarding skills to the heights of fame and success in the mid-to-late eighties. He was one of the giants of the sport's development from vertical skating in trespassed abandoned swimming pools to pop phenomenon ramp touring. Unfortunately, he just as quickly hit the skids as the sport changed styles to street skating, leaving him and his over-commercialized and suddenly unpopular `vert' world behind. While skaters like Tony Hawk made the adjustment and thrived even to the present day, Ragowski took a hard dive instead into substance abuse, briefly emerging from an alcoholic haze as a `born-again' skater, only to take a harder descent into violent sexual crime, landing him in prison for a 31-year term. A fascinating doc, exploring a lurid tale from a rarely seen culture (last explored in 2003's "Dogtown and Z-Boys"), with clips of Ragowski in his "glory" MTV/ Swatch tour days, as well as intimate peeks into backstage shenanigans on tour, and his frustrations in trying to move to a street style.
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- May 1, 2004
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- Gross US & Canada
- $150,268
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,998
- Aug 24, 2003
- Gross worldwide
- $150,268
- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
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By what name was Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator (2002) officially released in Canada in English?
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