Bustin' Down the Door

Bustin' Down the Door (2008)

  • 78% of critics liked it
    (37 reviews)

  • 73% of users liked it
    (492 ratings)

Narrated by Edward Norton, Jeremy Gosch's Bustin Down the Door tells the tale of how a group of ambitious young men helped shape surfing into an international phenomenon in the winter of 1975. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 35 min.
Directed By
Jeremy Gosch
Written By
Jeremy Gosch, Robert Traill, Monika Gosch, Shaun Tomson
Genres
Documentary, Sports & Fitness
In Theaters
Jul 25, 2008 Wide
On DVD
Jan 13, 2009
Screen Media Films

Critic Reviews

  • Reyhan Harmanci, San Francisco Chronicle

    The film tries to tell us that money hasn't spoiled the fun, but I was much more curious about the black shorts than the Quicksilver brand board shorts.

  • Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter

    [An] insightful account of the rise of a, pardon the pun, new wave of surfers that transformed the sport in the mid-1970s.

  • Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News

    Some of the talk gets a little bombastic, but it's hard to deny the thrill involved.

  • Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times

    Bustin' Down the Door entertainingly captures surfing's last great hoorah of no-holds-barred radicalism.

  • Nathan Lee, New York Times

    Happily, the filmmaker, Jeremy Gosch, puts his wide-eyed narrative together with an easy touch. With its amazing wall-to-wall footage of oceanic derring-do Bustin' Down the Door plays like visual air-conditioning.

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