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Bustin' Down the Door (2008) Certificate 15

Bustin' Down the Door
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Rated 3.0 stars
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Starring: Shaun Tomson | Wayne Bartholomew | Mark Richards | Peter Townend | Edward Norton | Edward Norton (Narr.)
Director: Jeremy Gosch
Studio: Metrodome
Run time: 96 mins
Genres: Documentary
Languages: English
Released: January 18, 2010

Guns, gangs and huge waves. The brutally violent true story of when Hawaii's North Shore went to war. During the winter of 1975 in Hawaii, surfing was shaken to its core. A group of young surfers from Australia and South Africa sacrificed everything and put it all on the line to create a sport, a culture, and an industry that is today worth billions of dollars and has captured the imagination of the world. With a radical new approach and a brash colonial attitude, these surfers crashed headlong into a culture that was not ready for revolution. Surfing was never to be the same again...

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Few outside the surfing cognoscenti are probably aware the sport took its first steps towards professionalism in the...

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Rated 4.0 stars
surfer's godfather movie

leopaiva from , 1st February, 2010

amazing movie telling the story of the first surfer of hawaii that started to take the sport at a professinal level....very good waves and a good real story after all..but this is a documentary movie ...if you dont like surf dont watch it....

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