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- 1987
- PG
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 36 m
- 1987
- PG
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 36 m
Summary An Arizona surfer, laughed at by the veteran boarders in Hawaii, finds a mentor - and a girlfriend - and prepares to ride the giant waves of Oahu.
Directed By: William Phelps
Written By: Randal Kleiser, Tim McCanlies, William Phelps
- 1987
- PG
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 36 m
- 1987
- PG
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 36 m
North Shore
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Summary An Arizona surfer, laughed at by the veteran boarders in Hawaii, finds a mentor - and a girlfriend - and prepares to ride the giant waves of Oahu.
Directed By: William Phelps
Written By: Randal Kleiser, Tim McCanlies, William Phelps
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
31
14% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
43% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
43% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
31
14% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
43% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
43% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
If you take it on its own terms -- as a summer teen exploitation film locked into an adolescent vision of life, with no particular ambitions to step out of its class -- it's a movie that works just fine. [14 Aug 1987, p.26]
Less pretentious than John Milius' Big Wednesday, North Shore is pleasant enough but not very engaging.
If the movie has nothing important to say, so what? Neither do most surfers. [14 Aug 1987, p.1D]
The surfing footage is fairly routine until the film's climax, a contest featuring some spectacular shots of surfers seen beneath the overhang of breaking waves. Otherwise, the surfing, writing, direction and performances are of a caliber to interest only undiscriminating adolescents.
Aimed squarely at adolescents in subconscious search of strong father figures, most of the movie is dull and familiar. [18 Aug 1987, p.C]
Only cognoscenti of things wet and wild could conceivably enjoy this B movie about an Arizona wave pool champion who comes of age by riding on water.
Much of the big-surf footage is stunning; some of it is terrifying. But is it worth sitting through North Shore to get to the big sets? No way, dude. [14 Aug 1987, p.D5]
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Production Company
Finnegan/Pinchuk Productions,
Universal Pictures
Release Date Aug 14, 1987
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating PG
Tagline On a small stretch of coastline as powerful as a man's will, Rick Kane came to surf the big waves. He found a woman who would show him how to survive, and a challenge unlike any other.
