Chasing Mavericks [SEP] director
Chasing Mavericks
Chasing Mavericks is a 2012 American biographical drama film directed by Curtis Hanson and Michael Apted about the life of American surfer Jay Moriarity.
It was the final film directed by Hanson, before his death in 2016.
Plot.
In 1987, an 8-year-old boy in Santa Cruz, California, Jay Moriarity, is saved from drowning by his next door neighbor, surfer Frosty Hesson (Gerard Butler). This ignites his passion for the sport.
One morning, Jay (Jonny Weston)
of the big Mavericks scene by Oliver Euclid and Bill Pope is so frightening that you sort of understand why Frosty stays on the shore, watching Jay with binoculars." Rotten Tomatoes gives it a score of 33% based on 80 reviews, with an average score of 4.86/10. The site's consensus states: "It's sweet, gentle, and affably modest, but "Chasing Mavericks" is ultimately pulled under by an unconvincing script and a puzzling lack of energy."
Home media.
"Chasing Mavericks"