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Surfwise (2007)

Director: Doug Pray

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From Time Out New York

What would it be like to have Johnny Utah as a dad? Trained as a doctor at Stanford, Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz one day underwent an existential crisis and left the world of medicine for a life of surfing and living out of an RV, taking along his wife, Juliette, and their nine kids. Doc believed that real wisdom could be gained only through this kind of simple, on-the-go lifestyle. Now the tykes are all grown up, and are still trying to sort out whether Doc’s philosophy was a brilliant example of unorthodox child-rearing or just plain abusive. Doug Pray’s film isn’t so much a simple surfing movie as it is an engrossing portrait of a singular American family.

Author: Drew Toal 2008-05-07 17:39:33

Time Out New York Issue 658: May 8-14, 2008

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  • borrisbatanov said...
    Posted on Jun 26 2008 22:28 Dorian Paskowitz is a selfish jerk, who hurt his children and threw away his education. He accomplished nothing, is just another navel gazer, more worried about his body and diet than mankind. How misguided that anyone would make a whole movie adulating this destructive self-centered nothing.
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Surfwise

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Director: Doug Pray

Producer: Graydon Carter, Tommy Means, Jonathan Paskowitz, Matt Weaver

Rated: R

Duration: 93 mins

US Release: May 9 2008


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