North Shore (film)

North Shore (film)
North Shore

Theatrical release poster
Directed by William Phelps
Produced by Bill Finnegan
Tim McCanlies
Written by Randal Kleiser
Tim McCanlies
William Phelps
Starring Matt Adler
Nia Peeples
Gerry Lopez
John Philbin
Gregory Harrison
Studio Finnegan/Pinchuk Productions
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) 1987
Running time 96 min
Country  United States
Language English

North Shore is a 1987 film about Rick Kane (Matt Adler), a young fictional surfer from a wave tank in Arizona, who heads to surf the season on the North Shore of Oʻahu and see if he has the skills to cut it as a pro surfer. As he progresses on his journey, he learns the qualities he possesses are not going to pull him through alone.

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Rick Kane, approximately 18 years of age at the start of the film having just graduated high school, uses his winnings from a wave tank surfing contest in his native state of Arizona to fly to Hawaii the summer before that start of college to try and become a professional surfer. He takes a plane to Honolulu with plans to stay with a surfer that he met in Arizona six months ago. He finds the friend tending bar at a seedy gentlemen's club. At the bar he meets up with two pro surfers, Alex and Mark, and stays with them at the house of Lance Burkhart. In the morning, he goes out surfing with Alex and Mark and realizes that surfing in the ocean is totally different to surfing in a wave tank and he is not as good as he had initially thought. During this scene he gets in the way of Vince, leader of the local group the Hui (wave slider club) and (real surfing legend Gerry Lopez), which causes Vince to wipe out and leads to a confrontation where he is chased off the beach after he realizes his stuff was stolen from the beach by a member of the Hui. With nowhere to go, he fortuitously runs into Turtle (John Philbin). Kane meets and falls in love with Kiani (Nia Peeples), a beautiful local girl who helps him acclimate to the local culture and customs. Turtle introduces him to Chandler (Gregory Harrison), a shaper and soul surfer, who teaches Rick about soul surfing and Rick masters the art of appreciating and riding the waves. Rick is a talented graphic artist who helps Chandler design a more contemporary logo for his surfboards. The film's antagonist is Lance Burkhart (Laird Hamilton), a famous, top-ranked surfer whose competitive and materialistic values conflict with the spiritual teachings of Chandler. The film climaxes with a surf contest on Banzai Pipeline as Rick ends up competing against Lance in a duel of skills and beliefs.

Professional surfers

North Shore features professional surfers Shaun Tomson, Gerry Lopez ("Vince"), Laird Hamilton ("Lance Burkhart"), Mark Occhilupo, Robbie Page ("Alex Rogers"), Mark Foo, Derek Ho, Hans Hedemann, Ken Bradshaw and several others.

Popular culture

The movie plot is the narrative for the song "Hui" by the Christian swing/ska band The W's on their CD titled Fourth From the Last.

Part of the plot is parodied in Surf's Up.

During a concert in 2010, Tegan Quin of Tegan and Sara admitted that their song "Northshore" was entitled after this movie after Tegan had an experience similar to that of Rick Kane.

The movie is mentioned heavily in the Sarah Vowell book about Hawaiian history, Unfamiliar Fishes.

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