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Surfwise: The Amazing True Odyssey of the Paskowitz Family
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Manufacturer: Magnolia
Directed By: Doug Pray
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: SURFWISE: THE AMAZING PASKOWITZ FAMILY (DVD M
EAN: 0876964000932
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: Magnolia
Manufacturer: Magnolia
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Magnolia
Release Date: 2008-07-29
Running Time: 93
Studio: Magnolia
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Legendary surfer, Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz, abandoned a successful medical practice to withdraw from the lifestyle of mainstream America. But unlike other American searchers such as Thoreau and Kerouac, Paskowitz took his wife and nine children along for the ride, all eleven of them living in a 24-foot camper. The family spent their days living by Doc's rules on health, fitness, sexuality, and above all surfing. The Paskowitzs' prove that America may be running out of frontiers, but it hasn't run out of frontiersmen.
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Summary: Interesting Bit of Americana
Comment: I found this to be an interesting documentary about a family who represents a not so standard deviation from the mean. I appreciated the fact that this film illustrated that the American dream is not all it's cracked up to be. It's great to remind ourselves, in these times of economic stress, that money and things are not always the be all, end all. If this film has anything to say about it, it seems that happiness is just a wave.
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Summary: Don't miss this!
Comment: not your ordinary family, but that's why it's so entertaining. Surfing was and still is shaped by this family.
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Summary: Awsome documentry
Comment: This is probably the best documentary I've ever seen. Their story is fascinating, but be advised that there is frank a very graphic language not suitable for younger viewers.
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Summary: Freedom for Myself; Prison for My Children
Comment: The charismatic doctor and surfing champion Dorian Paskowitz languishes through 2 failed marriages during the conventional 1950s before having his epiphany in which he will be a "free spirit" and travel with his third wife and 9 children like a band of surfing vagabonds. The new lifestyle is great for the father who finds sensual and spiritual fulfillment; sadly, though, it's a prison for his children who must live without schooling, money for clothes, and the normal opportunity to meet kids their age.
This documentary does an excellent job of showing how these children navigate precariously through their one life as celebrities of counterculture and their second life of social dysfunction and resentment toward a father who wanted unlimited freedom for himself and draconian imprisonment for his children.
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Summary: Proof that you don't need an SUV, a McMansion and a 401K to be happy...
Comment: This movie should change your outlook. If it doesn't, perhaps you need to re-evaluate your priorities. Money does not buy happiness.
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