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Brink! | |
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Genre | Drama Family Sport |
Written by | Jeff Schechter |
Directed by | Greg Beeman |
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Theme music composer | J. Peter Robinson |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
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Executive producer | David Hoberman |
Producer | Bernadette Caulfield |
Cinematography | Rodney Charters |
Editor | Lee Haxall |
Running time | 99 minutes |
Production companies | Fake-Reel Films Mandeville Films |
Original release | |
Network | Disney Channel |
Release | August 29, 1998 |
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Brink! is a 1998 American sports drama film that depicts the sport of aggressive inline skating. Written by Jeff Schechter and directed by Greg Beeman, the film stars Erik von Detten as Andy "Brink" Brinker, a high school inline skater who joins a group of skaters to help his financially troubled family. The plot adapts and updates the 1865 novel Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge.[1][2] The film was released as the third Disney Channel Original Movie.
It doesn't take a literary expert to recognize the made-for-cable Disney movie, Brink! as an updated adaptation of the Mary Mapes Dodge classic, Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates (which Disney had filmed "straight" as a two-part TV drama back in the early 1960s).
The film is very loosely based on the 1865 novel, Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates.