The End is a 1998 skateboarding film from Birdhouse Skateboards

Birdhouse Skateboards

Birdhouse Skateboards is a skateboard company formed by ex-Powell Peralta pros Tony Hawk and Per Welinder in 1992....

. It was made under the direction of Jamie Mosberg, who also produced and edited it. The original movie was released in 1998, but the movie was re-released in 2001.

Plot

There is no real plot that runs throughout this documentary

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

. Instead, each skater was placed into their segment to showcase their skills. Some of the skaters also incorporated a short story into their segments. Some of these story lines include McCrank looking for a job, Berra being killed by an unknown attacker, Reynolds hanging out with a monkey, Kirchart and Klein's rampaging mayhem in the city and Lasek taking down Hawk so that Lasek can become the number one skateboarder.

Cast

(in order of appearance)

• Rick McCrank
  Rick McCrank
  Rick McCrank is a Canadian professional skateboarder. He was voted Best Street Skater by TransWorld Skateboarding Magazine in 2000. He co-founded and owns Anti-Social Skateshop and co-owns Momentum Wheels. Rick has designed several pro skate shoe models, including the éS Anti-Social...
  
  
• Willy Santos
  Willy Santos
  Willy Monolato Santos is a Filipino-American professional skateboarder born in Subic Bay, Philippines. He has been skateboarding for 19 years. He currently resides in Poway, California but grew up in Mira Mesa. He attended Ericson Elementary School from kindergarten...
  
  
• Andrew Reynolds
• Brian Sumner
  Brian Sumner
  Brian Sumner is a professional skateboarder for Reliance Skateboards, Truth Soul Armor Clothing, Airspeed skate shoes, Rocket Wheels, Independent Trucks, Ninja Bearings, Furnace skate shop, Project Hardware and Fender Guitars...
  
   - Am montage
• Ali Cairns - Am montage
• Jeff Lenoce - Am montage
• Steve Berra
• Heath Kirchart
• Jeremy Klein
  Jeremy Klein
  Jeremy "Playboy" Klein is a professional American skateboarder.Klein rose to prominence as one of the original riders for Steve Rocco's World Industries. He switched to Birdhouse Skateboards team. After being one of the first pros on Birdhouse, Jeremy retired from Birdhouse in 2008...
  
  
• Tony Hawk
  Tony Hawk
  Anthony Frank "Tony" Hawk , nicknamed "The Birdman" is an American retired professional skateboarder and actor. Hawk gained significant fame for completing the first 900 as well as his licensed video game titles distributed by Activision...
  
  
• Bucky Lasek
  Bucky Lasek
  -Biography:Lasek started skateboarding at the age of twelve, shortly after his bike was stolen. After entering amateur contests, he was quickly noticed by Powell Peralta talent scouts in 1987...
  
  

Featuring

Janine Lindemulder

Janine Lindemulder

Janine Marie Lindemulder , also known as Janine Marie James, is an American exotic dancer and adult film actress, best known for her work in American pornographic films during the mid-1990s and a 2004–2005 comeback...

 and Kobe Tai

Kobe Tai

Kobe Tai is the professional name of a pornographic actress and adult model of Taiwanese and Japanese heritage. She entered the adult film industry at the age of 24, and appeared in over 70 films between 1996 and 2003. She returned to adult movies in December 2001 when she made Jenna Loves Kobe ...

 - Appearance in Jeremy Klein and Heath Kirchart's dream sequence.

Special Edition

In 2001, a special edition of The End became available for VHS

VHS

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 and DVD

DVD

A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

. The DVD came with many special features such as a "making of" featurette, photo gallery, remastered audio, additional and old footage, board gallery and audio commentary with the option of adding in picture-in-picture with The End and the filmed commentary session with the Birdhouse team. The VHS version however only included the "making of" featurette.