Mitchell Goosen(McDermott) is a teenager from California who loves to surf and rollerblade but his parents who happen to be zoologists were given a grant to work in Australia and they have to leave Mitchell with his cousin Wiley, his aunt and his uncle in Cincinnati, Ohio. This is far from the beach which means he can't surf or do what he usually does. When Mitchell arrives in Ohio he meets his cousin Wiley(Green) who is a terrible driver and kind of a dork but tries to act cool. Mitchell then goes to school with his cousin and they get on the bad side of the hockey players who happen to be the popular guys that travel in packs. These people include Jack, Augie(Black), Rosenblat and the Banducci's . Mitchell and Wiley end up being tortured by the hockey players for weeks. Mitchell then falls in love with Nikki(Powell), who is Jack's sister and after Jack finds out he doesn't want her to see him anymore. After Mitchell schools the preps in street hockey and embarrasses Blane, the leader of The Preps, The Preps challenge the hockey players to a rollerskating race down a dangerous path that leads down different hills and streets with traffic called Devil's Backbone and they ask Mitchell to join their team in order for them to win. Overall this is one of the best movies ever made and it needs to be released on dvd.