| Movie: |
"Big Wednesday" aka "Summer of Innocence"
(1978) |
| Character: |
Fly |
| Costars: |
Jan-Michael Vincent, Gary Busey, Patti D'Arbanville,
William Katt |
| Critics: |
GMR: 2 1/2 out of 4. VMG:
2 out of 5. |
| Availability: |
Order "Big
Wednesday" Now at Videoflicks |
Comments:
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From Miss
Josh Emmett: Despite what you might expect, this is not a movie
about surfing. This is about 3 men growing up. The surf brings
them together every few years, so you
can follow their lives. J-M, William and Gary are actual surfers,
who thought this was a paid vacation! And they did their own surfing
for the movie. (Ironically, when J-M was in an auto accident in the
90s, it brought the 3 of them back together after all those years.
Without William and Gary's help, J-M says he wouldn't be able to walk and
talk today.) As for Robert: he is in a couple of crowd scenes
at first. Then he has a funny bit, where he pretends to be blind
at the draft board (it works). And has one line in which he says
goodbye to William's character who is leaving for Nam. I recommend
this movie for the acting, the storyline, the wonderful shots of the ocean
and the surfing, and the haunting scene of all the white tombstones row
on row gleaming in the moonlight for all the guys who died in Viet Nam.
For all you trivia buffs: check for a very young Charlene Tilton
as a party girl, and Stacey Keach, Sr. as the fish man. |
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