Smith, Prenatt and McLaughlin are all seasoned professional skateboarders, and have worked together in some capacity within the realm of skateboarding. Then my mom got me a skateboard from Toys ‘R Us, and then I just started skating.” I would try not to use the handlebars and kind of push without it. “I was three, it sounds crazy, I was barely even walking, but it just looked interesting to me.
“I was never really into any other sports,” Suljic says. Stevie struggles to learn skateboarding in the first half of the film, a difficult task for Suljic, who is a seasoned skateboarder. RELATED READS: Try a new halloween maze at Mount Airy's Haunted Circus Mansion | These are the Philly filmmakers showing at this year's film festival | New Holocaust memorial on Ben Franklin Parkway opens next week We watch Stevie form strong bonds with his new friends, as Ray begins to take him under his wing.
He becomes close with Ray (Na-kel Smith), an older, talented skater with professional aspirations, and his friends, “F**ks**t,” (Olan Prenatt) and Fourth Grade (Ryder McLaughlin). He is reluctantly welcomed into the group by Ruben (Gio Galicia) and soon rises up in the hierarchy of their group.
The film follows Stevie (Sunny Suljic), a 13-year-old boy, as he desperately tries to fit in with a group of skateboarders. Jonah Hill's directorial debut, "Mid90s," captures not just the skateboarding culture of the 1990s, but what friendship means to a young and impressionable teenager.
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