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SURF CINEMA

By | April 2004

I’m a surfing enthusiast. Hollywood tackles the sport on occasion, usually with so much earnestness that the movie comes out impossibly dopey or with a hipper-than-thou attitude that drowns the flick in smugness…

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SURF CINEMA

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