In ‘Minding the Gap,’ boys battle chaos with skateboarding
Feb 01, 2019
3 minutes
The Oscar-nominated documentary “Minding the Gap” opens with hand-held footage of teenage boys surreptitiously scaling a building to skateboard on its roof. Except for the danger factor, it all looks innocent enough, but what soon becomes clear is that, for these boys – Keire Johnson, Zack Mulligan, and Bing Liu – skateboarding is more than just a lark. It’s a way of escaping from the extreme difficulties of their lives. All three endured physical abuse from their fathers or
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