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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08/01/08
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Bustin' Down the Door (2008)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:26
Rotten:8
Average Rating:6.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Sports/Recreation
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... [More]
Starring: Wayne "Rabbit" Bartholomew, Ian Cairns, Mark Richards, Shaun Tomson
Director: Jeremy Gosch
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Reviews for Bustin' Down the Door
[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
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
You'll learn more about the pathos of hanging ten from Surf's Up.
07/25/08
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
Bustin' Down the Door entertainingly captures surfing's last great hoorah of no-holds-barred radicalism.
07/25/08
Top CriticForget 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
[Bustin’ Down the Door] will leave surf junkies and novices alike longing to get their feet wet.
07/24/08
Will likely be of interest to surfers and surfing fans only.
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 CriticIncludes of some of the most extraordinary surf footage seen since Bruce Brown’s early Endless Summer films.
06/27/08
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