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PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) :: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment :: Released: 2010-01-05

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from Acclaimed Director Stacy Peralta Comes riding Giants, The Story Of Big Wave Surfing. Breakingthe Mold Of Traditional Documentary Filmmaking, Riding Giants Uses Its Dynamic, Cross-generational Approach To Profile The Lives And Times Of The Intrepid Surfers Who Over The Decades Have Dedicated Themselves To Finding And Successfully Challenging The Biggest Waves On Earth. We Meet Greg Noll, The Pioneer, Whose Relentless Push Into Hawaii's Big Surf In The Late 1950s Earned Him The Nickname "the Bull." There's Jeff Clark, Northern California's Lone Frontiersman, Who, After Discovering The Massive Waves Of Maverick's Near San Francisco, Rode There Alone For Over A Decade. And Finally Hawaii's Laird Hamilton, The Prototypical "extreme" Surfer, A Rare Breed Of Athlete/innovator Considered As The Best Big Wave Rider Who Ever Waxed A Board. Through A Fast-paced Combination Of Mediums That Include Classic Archival Photography, Spectacular Movie Footage - Both Current And Vintage - And Contemporary Interviews With The Sport's Greatest Surfers, Experts And Storytellers, Riding Giants Captures The Rich Visual History Of One Of The Most Dramatic Athletic Adventures Of Our Time. -- Sam George, Global Editor Surfer Magazine

Riding Giants is more than another blissfulsurfing movie. It's an outstanding documentary about one era in American alternative lifestyles, when surfing was well-suited to a radical culture of social dropouts. Using an amazing array of amateur film clips, shot for the most part in Hawaii and California from the late 1950s and early '60s, director Stacy Peralta traces the rise of surfing's appeal to young men looking to test themselves in an unorthodox (and sexy) milieu--of "living life to the fullest," as former surfer-turned-screenwriter John Milius (Big Wednesday) puts it at one point. Lengthy chapters on the glories of Oahu's Makaha and the "superstition and dread" that accompanied the big-wave challenge of Waimea Bay are riveting and sometimes heroic, particularly told through the memories of surf legend Greg Noll. Great material, too, about the deadly wonders of surfing Mavericks, California, where the rocks will get one if the violent tides don't. --Tom Keogh

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Riding Giants [Blu-ray] Blu-Ray DVD Techincal Details Cast: Laird John Hamilton, Dave Kalama, Jeff Clark, David H. Kalama Jr.
Director: Stacy Peralta
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Running Time: 105 mins
UPC: 043396329614
Binding: Blu-ray
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Release Date: 2010-01-05
Region Code: 1
Specs: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen

Language & Subtitles English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language),