I know it sounds like the title of a film about Tom Cruise impersonator groupies, but it's actually about surfing. I know next to zilch about surfing, and what I do know I learned from movies like North Shore and Point Break. Like those movies, Chasing Mavericks has a grizzled vet teaching a young pupil and is full of surfing-is-Zen mumbo jumbo, but the latter isn't ladled on quite as thick here... and thankfully not one person says "Brah". (Co!?)-Directed by Michael Apted(!?), the often bland coming of age script (based on the life of Jay Moriarty) is overcome by the earnest performances of the younger cast, and the rock solid turns of the vets (Gerard Butler, Elizabeth Shue). And even if you don't give a hill of beans about surfing, the surfing action itself is pretty majestic stuff.
Review of Chasing Mavericks
