Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ewan McGregor, John Pertwee

Wax up your boards and hang 10 (or whatever) where the big waves come crashing in: off the English coast at Cornwall. Huh? No endless summer? No two girls for every boy? No, but in Blue Juice o...( read more  read more... )ne can see what most of us probably never even thought about: the British Isles are indeed islands and, not incongruously, there's a considerable surfing culture with a handful of homegrown legends. One of the latter is JC (Sean Pertwee), a skilled surfer so driven by the challenge and so dedicated to his mates that it threatens his meandering romance with the long-suffering Chloe (Catherine Zeta-Jones). The two have planned an extensive, around-the-world trip as a kind of prelude to discussing marriage, but the arrangement is threatened when three of JC's old childhood chums arrive from London. One of them (played by Steven Mackintosh) is a famous record producer who has sold his soul (in every sense) to reap profits from fashionable electronica. Another (Ewan McGregor) is a chronic screwup resorting to hustling junk to unsuspecting customers. The last (Peter Gunn) is an anxious sort terrified of marrying his longtime girlfriend. Together, these four guys look like a pack of nowhere men and they know it: while the story largely focuses on JC and Chloe, there's plenty of material for the supporting characters to indulge in mucho self-loathing. The film never quite jumps off the screen and the script may be hampered by too many layers of character eccentricity, but this is still an enjoyable piece with some fine comic performances. --Tom Keogh

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R, 93 min.

Directed by: Carl Prechezer

Release Date: September 15, 1995

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DVD Release Date: June 5, 2001

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  • November 7, 2006
    It was okay.
  • August 29, 2007
    Reminds me of my lil hols in cornwall!
  • September 4, 2009
    i want to watch thies movie
  • August 25, 2009
    One thing I have to point out is Ewan McGregor looked a lot like Kurt Cobain here. Even though he wasn't the lead he still controlled the majority of the film. It didn't have that many shots of surfing as I expected. Most of the time they were waiting for that one big wave to com...( read more)e where Ewan surfed and almost lost his life to. The only real dramatic scene in the movie.

    Still Sean Pertwee and Catherine Zeta Jones characters held the movie together with their "your friends or me" relationship. Even though the friends were the ones to actually save their failing relationship. A solid release, but if you're looking for more surf, try the movie "North Shore".
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  • December 30, 2008
    A waste of time that should only be watched if you like Catherine Zeta Jones & Ewan McGregor. The movie is about surfers and how guys need to grow up and that kind of stuff. The movie just is kind of nothing and the characters are doing things that really make no sense at times. ...( read more)This is also they movie where Jones is mysteriosly attracted to someone
    even more unlikely than Michael Douglas.
  • July 16, 2008
    Despite the cover and the flixster plot summary, it's really about four old friends who go through some odd situations to improve their stagnant lives. The main star of the film Sean Pertwee gives his best lead performance, considering he doesn't play the lead all that often. M...( read more)cGregor, on the other hand, hams it up.
  • May 17, 2008
    2 early roles from catherin zeta jones, and a english acented ewen mcgregor in a supporting role, not a original film but all performances are good especially these two and showing there talent, but story, about raising money to keep a surfer cafe open in cornwall is engageing en...( read more)ough, with some nice british humour, and zeta jones is pretty hot here too,which helps
  • April 8, 2008
    Ewan in an British surfer movie? I had to have it, even if he has a small part in an otherwise fairly amusing movie.
  • March 1, 2008
    Catherine is so young she still has her welsh accent, ewan macgregor is very innocent

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