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Chasing Mavericks
Legends Start Somewhere
Legends Start Somewhere
Drama - 2012
7.2
31%
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Surfer Jay Moriarity sets out to ride the Northern California break known as Mavericks.
Chasing Mavericks
Dogtown and Z-Boys
(2001)
This award-winning, thrilling story is about a group of discarded kids who revolutionized skateboarding and shaped the attitude and culture of modern day extreme sports. Featuring old skool skating footage, exclusive interviews and a blistering rock soundtrack, DOGTOWN AND Z-BOYS captures the rise of the Zephyr skateboarding team from ...
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Lords of Dogtown
(2005)
The radical true story behind three teenage surfers from Venice Beach, California, who took skateboarding to the extreme and changed the world of sports forever. Stacy Peralta, Tony Alva and Jay Adams are the Z-Boys, a bunch of nobodies until they create a new style of skateboarding that becomes a worldwide phenomenon. But when their h...
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Blood Surf
(2000)
A sleazy producer develops a concept he dubs "blood surfing" -- tossing bloody fish remains into the water to lure sharks and then surfing through the animals as they chomp about. Along with his camerawoman, the producer brings two thrill-seeking surfers to the coast of Florida to capture some gnarly footage. But, as they blood surf, t...
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Surf Party
(1964)
Arizona youth enjoy sun, surf and music in Malibu, Calif.
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Surfing and Sharks
(2011)
In South Africa between Durban and J.Bay lies approx 1000kms of untamed topographical and oceanic paradise, locally called 'Wild Coast'. For local surfers Lungani Memani, Andrew Lange and Avuyile Ndamase, it's their home. Every Year in June the ocean swells to it's peak, hosting the countries largest surf conditions and also becomes ho...
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L.A. Confidential
(1997)
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
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8 Mile
(2002)
For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's vibrant music scene, Jimmy wages an extraordinary personal struggle to find his own voice - and earn a place in a world where rhymes rule, legends are born and every moment… is another chance.
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Wonder Boys
(2000)
Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7 years ago. This weekend proves even worse than he could imagine as he finds himself reeling from one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy author.
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The Hand that Rocks the Cradle
(1992)
A suburban family chooses seemingly sweet Peyton Flanders as their newborn's nanny. Only much later does the infant's mother, Claire Bartel, realize Peyton's true intentions -- to destroy Claire and replace her in the family. The nail-biting suspense builds quickly in this chilling psychological thriller about deception and bitter reve...
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In Her Shoes
(2005)
Irresponsible party girl, Maggie is kicked out of her father's and stepmother's home—where she lives for free—and is taken in by her hard-working sister, Philadelphia lawyer, Rose. After Maggie's disruptive ways ruin her sister's love life, Rose turns her out as well. But when their grandmother, who they never knew existed, comes into ...

Details

Rated:
PG
Runtime:
117 min
Release date:
25 Oct 2012
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0

Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
When every frayed plot device you've predicted makes its inevitable appearance, at least you'll have the majestic waves off the California coastline to comfort you.
– Michael Posner,
Globe and Mail,
26 Oct 2012
rotten:
The heart-pounding surfing scenes are epic but the script can barely keep its head above the waves in the dramatized biopic Chasing Mavericks.
– Linda Barnard,
Toronto Star,
26 Oct 2012
rotten:
For Hanson and Apted, this is a rather inconsequential effort.
– James Berardinelli,
ReelViews,
26 Oct 2012
rotten:
It's a perfect fortune cookie of a movie, full of bland life lessons for everybody; would that there were some drama or style in it somewhere along the way.
– Bilge Ebiri,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
29 Oct 2012
rotten:
Floating atop the explosive breakers, like an overabundance of phytoplankton, is a roiling colony of cliches that stops at nothing to dominate the screenplay.
– Casey Burchby,
Village Voice,
1 Nov 2012
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