Bustin' Down the Door (2008)
- Directed by
- Jeremy Gosch
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 3 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
The film covers the rise of professional surfing in the 1970s. A group of young surfers from Australia and South Africa move to Hawaii and face obstacles including turf wars and death threats from locals.
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What happens
Bustin' Down The Door is a 2008 documentary film chronicling the rise of professional surfing in the early 1970s. The film follows a group of young surfers from Australia and South Africa, including Shaun Tomson, Wayne 'Rabbit' Bartholomew, Ian Cairns, Mark Richards, Michael Tomson and Peter Townend, as they relocate to Hawaii encountering obstacles, turf wars and massive wipeouts along the way. Clashes with the locals, some of whom find the newcomers' bravado to be insulting to Hawaiian culture, eventually culminate in death threats against the subjects of the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Pacific Vibrations (1970)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.