Brink (1998)

If you're an inline skating buff, you're in good company with Disney's made-for-television movie Brink. The story takes a backseat to some radical skating scenes that provide enough airs, grinds, and spins to satisfy the most bodacious bladers. The film's namesake is a Southern California high school teen, a.k.a. Andy Brinker (Erik von Detten of Leave It to Beaver and Escape to Witch Mountain), who lives for the love of skating. Hanging out at beachfront skate parks, Brink and his "soul skater" buddies are riding the perfect wave of summer until they collide with a group of hot wheelers led by smart-mouthed Val (Sam Horrigan). Nationally ranked champion Val and his cohorts are X-Bladz-sponsored skaters with paychecks and egos riding higher than their 540 flips. Animosity and adolescent cheap shots run deep between these rival groups until an accident lands one of the X-Bladz skaters on the sidelines. Now it's Brink's turn to try out for the open spot on the sponsored team. Yet when he joins the X-Bladz, his betrayed friends accuse him of selling out. Eventually, Brink learns the price of winning at any cost. Horrigan plays a deliciously wicked Val, and von Detten delivers a solid performance as the good son/good friend, Andy. Families will appreciate the earnest script, void of profanity and sexual innuendo. The deeper questions of loyalty and friendship are handled by way of some well-meaning platitudes, but what we've really come to see won't disappoint--impressive, edge-of-your-seat skating. --Lynn Gibson Amazon.com

a great movie everyone should watch

and i mean it. this i think is disney's best original disney channel movie. for one, i love the 90s. and the first time i watched this film i couldn't stop thinking about it (it was in 1999). i have a copy of it a friend dubbed onto a blank tape with another vcr. anyway i love just about everything about it. i love the morals of life it teaches . it also shows how being a sellout can change your life for the worst. just to give an example, val's friends realized what he was doing and turn their back on him. this film made me nearly cry it was so powerful. September 8, 2007

great movie!

It's a really good movie with a good moral to it, the moral being to do something cause you love it and not for the money- as being a sell-out. It also has really good music in the movie. Love it! And Erik Von Detten is amazing as Andy "Brink" Brinker! And he is so hot in the movie. November 17, 2006

songs on movie

For information on the songs the third song on brink in the beginning of the movie is called "sooner or later" by "fastball". July 4, 2006

I KNOW WHERE TO FIND THE SONG FREE!!!!

Mann...do you know how long ive been looking for that song where Brink goes to Gabbys house after the accident. The artist is Clarissa and the song is "Apology" I have a myspace account so I was looking through Clarissa and BOOM...there they were. I downloaded the song for FREEEEEEEE from over there, took about a min with DSL....have fun finding it...remember, MYSPACE...go to music, type in CLARISSA and it should be the black and white photo of like 3 guys...have fun. June 20, 2006

2 more songs from the soundtrack

ok the first is Sooner of Later by fastball
it is played when they r skating to the pit for the first time
then there is Look Before You Leap by The suicide machines June 7, 2006

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