This story is based where the skateboard culture is the most foreign, the Midwest. Derrick Cabrera, like all skaters, has a dream of being sponsored and one day going pro. He is an up and coming skater with all the talent but has the world against him. Parents, friends and schoolmates can't understand how Derrick has so much passion for something that has no future in their eye...。这部迎合美国知识份子口味的影片一上市,即蠃得了美国公众的一致好评。导演本人亦藉此一举成名.该片讲述由斯坦顿饰演的洛杉矶青年奥图,他在失去工作之后,协助一个思想极为顽固的老头卖旧汽车,从而引发一连串情节离奇的事件。此片以其新颖独特的手法生动勾画出洛杉矶不同类型文化的人物形象,节奏明快,影像鲜明,深具时代艺术电影色彩。。