The film tries to tell us that money hasn't spoiled the fun, but I was much more curious about the black shorts than the Quicksilver brand board shorts.
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Bustin' Down the Door (2008)
64 %
Reviews Counted: 14 Fresh: 9 Rotten:5 Average Rating: 6.4/10
Rated: Not Rated
Theatrical Release: Jun 27, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: BUSTIN’ DOWN THE DOOR chronicles a tumultuous two-year period of competitive and cultural clashes in the mid-Seventies in surfing's Mecca - Hawaii's North Shore of Oahu - as a small crew of Australians and South Africans set out with attitude and determination to change the world of surfing. ... [More]
Genre: Sports/Recreation
Starring: Wayne "Rabbit" Bartholomew, Ian Cairns, Mark Richards, Shaun Tomson, Michael Tomson
Director: Jeremy Gosch
Screenwriter: Jeremy Gosch, Robert Traill, Monika Gosch, Shaun Tomson
Producer: Monika Gosch, Robert Traill
Composer: Stuart Michael Thomas
Screenwriter: Jeremy Gosch, Robert Traill, Monika Gosch, Shaun Tomson
Producer: Monika Gosch, Robert Traill
Composer: Stuart Michael Thomas
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[An] insightful account of the rise of a, pardon the pun, new wave of surfers that transformed the sport in the mid-1970s.
07/30/08
Top Critic
Hawaii's role in the transformation of surfing from what many considered to be a pastime for drug-crazed counter-culture rebels to a multi-billion dollar sport is examined in debut director Jeremy Gosch's documentary about the group of Australian and Sout
07/27/08
Jeremy Gosch's documentary about the origins of professional surfing shines a light on four wave riders -- three Australians and a South African -- who helped transform a counter-culture life style into a billion-dollar industry.
07/25/08
Some of the talk gets a little bombastic, but it's hard to deny the thrill involved.
07/25/08
Top Critic
Bustin' Down the Door entertainingly captures surfing's last great hoorah of no-holds-barred radicalism.
07/25/08
Top Critic
Forget the questions, bro', and just watch vintage footage of these Aussies and South Africans riding giants off Hawaii's North Shore and showing those big kahunas what's what.
07/25/08
Happily, the filmmaker, Jeremy Gosch, puts his wide-eyed narrative together with an easy touch. With its amazing wall-to-wall footage of oceanic derring-do Bustin' Down the Door plays like visual air-conditioning.
07/25/08
Top Critic
[Bustin’ Down the Door] will leave surf junkies and novices alike longing to get their feet wet.
07/24/08
While it’s pleasurable to watch surf legends wax nostalgic about fissures in the precorporate surf lifestyle, Bustin’ would be better served by delving a bit deeper into the erosion of a native culture.
07/24/08
With verve, style and a fine sense of the human side of surf culture, Jeremy Gosch makes a terrific splash with his debut doc.
07/23/08
Top Critic
Includes of some of the most extraordinary surf footage seen since Bruce Brown’s early Endless Summer films.
06/27/08
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