Gleaming the Cube

Gleaming the Cube also known as A Brothers Justice and Skate or Die is an American film released in 1989. It featured Christian Slater as Brian Kelly, a 16yearold skateboarder investigating the death of his adopted Vietnamese brother.

Brian Kelly is an underachieving high school student living in Orange County, California. An avid skateboarder along with many of his friends, Brian is frequently at odds with his parents for his increasingly reckless behavior, which has landed him in jail on more than one occasion. The only person in the family Brian can relate to is his adopted Vietnamese brother Vinh, who works as a shipping clerk for the Vietnamese AntiCommunist Relief Fund VACRF, an organization whose stated purpose is to send medical supplies to Vietnam.When Vinh discovers a suspicious error in VACRFs shipping records, he brings it to his boss Colonel Trac, who dismisses the matter as a clerical error. But when Vinh tries to investigate further, Colonel Trac abruptly fires him. Determined to find out the truth, Vinh sneaks into Westpac Medical Supplies WMS, the warehouse responsible for VACRFs shipping, but is apprehended by the warehouses owner, Ed Lawndale. He is then taken to a local motel and interrogated by Lawndale and Bobby Nguyen, another of Colonel Tracs employees. When Colonel Trac himself arrives at the motel, it is revealed that he and Lawndale are conspirators in a scheme to smuggle illegal weapons and ammunition to Vietnam. Convinced that Vinh poses no threat to their operation, Trac intends to set him free, but unfortunately Vinh dies from being strangled by Nguyen. The next morning, a housekeeper enters the room and finds Vinhs body hanging from a noose, purposely made to look like he committed suicide. ........

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