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Five Summer Stories

Five Summer Stories

1972Movie⏱️ 1h 34m
DocumentarySport
8.3
IMDB Rating
68 votes

The culmination of a ten year celebration in celluloid, Greg MacGillivray and James Lee Freeman give us five-plus exciting, controversial and beautiful stories about surfing. A perspective that warns of the future while it warms t...

Director
Greg MacGillivray
Writers
Jim Freeman, Greg MacGillivray
Stars
Eddie Aikau, Dru Harrison, Sam Hawk
Release Date
April 12, 1972
Language
English
Country
United States
💬 2
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Eddie Aikau
Eddie Aikau
as Self
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Dru Harrison
as Self
👤
Sam Hawk
as Self
👤
Randy Johnson
as Self - Ski Instructor
Gerry Lopez
Gerry Lopez
as Self
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David Nuuhiwa
as Self

💰 Box Office

$692
Worldwide Gross

🎬 Technical Specs

Sound
Mono
Color
Color
Filming Location
California, USA
Production
MacGillivray Freeman Films

🏷️ Keywords

the futuresurfsurfingoceanwaves

🎯 Categories

Water SportDocumentarySport

⭐ Featured Review

an intimate look at gerry lopez
by tj_madferit2011-06-27
10/10

"Heralded as "the finest surf movie ever made," Five Summer Stories is a cultural icon, a time capsule from a watershed era when the world was at a critical crossroads and its reflection was clear in the emerging sport/art of surfing. Against a backdrop of the Vietnam War and the Nixon years, Five Summer Stories was the culmination of the joint surf-film careers of Jim Freeman and Greg MacGillivray. Code named "The Last Surfing Movie" during production, the movie portrays a young, outlaw sport at a strategic point in its creative evolution - and at an historic crux in time. ..."

📖 Synopsis

The culmination of a ten year celebration in celluloid, Greg MacGillivray and James Lee Freeman give us five-plus exciting, controversial and beautiful stories about surfing. A perspective that warns of the future while it warms t...