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Hollywood Don't Surf!
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Directed by
Written bySam George
Produced by
Edited byDale Beldin & Justin Krohn
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CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Hollywood Don't Surf! is a 2011 documentary film that premiered in the 2010 Cannes Film Festival while a work in progress[1] and held its North American premiere at the 2011 Telluride Film Festival, where it was presented to a packed park at the Abel Gance Outdoor theater by actress Daryl Hannah.[2]

Narrated by Robert Englund, the film explores the purportedly strained relationship between Hollywood film makers and the surfing community. After an irreverent and wild main title sequence (including the first printed and filmed images of surfing), Hollywood Don't Surf! examines the legendary film Gidget and the subsequent surf exploitation genre that followed, centering on the ambitious John Milius written and directed 1978 Warner Bros. film Big Wednesday, a commercial disappointment at the time, and the smattering of surf films that followed as Big Wednesday enjoyed a subsequent rebirth as a cult film on home video.

The documentary features:

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  1. ^ https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118018426.html?categoryId=3628 [dead link]
  2. ^ "Telluride Film Festival Unveils Its Lineup". September 2011.
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