Matt Adler loves to surf in the local wave machine pools. He'll enter art school in the fall, so he decides to head to Oahu's North Shore to surf the big waves. After a rocky start which proves to him that he doesn't know anything about the people and culture, he is succored by old-line board shaper Gregory Harrison, who teaches him about waves, water and the joys of soul-surfing.He also has an affair with local lovely Nia Peeples.
It's a nice mixture of teenage lover/learning about life, with handsome young people for eye candy. The real joy in the movie is Peter Smokler's cinematography, with plenty of handsome pictures of waves, water and sky. There was a flurry of surfing movies in the 1980s, and this one makes an effort to say something deeper than, say POINT BREAK. It's not terribly successful at that, but the visuals are outstanding.
It's a nice mixture of teenage lover/learning about life, with handsome young people for eye candy. The real joy in the movie is Peter Smokler's cinematography, with plenty of handsome pictures of waves, water and sky. There was a flurry of surfing movies in the 1980s, and this one makes an effort to say something deeper than, say POINT BREAK. It's not terribly successful at that, but the visuals are outstanding.