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List Price: $24.98 | | Label: Screen Media
Salesrank: 14277
Released: January 13, 2009 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
This action-packed documentary takes you back to the winter of 1975 in hawaii - a dramatic moment in history when a group of young south african & australian surfers sacraficed everything. They put it all on the line to create a sport a culture & an industry that is today wirth billions of dollars. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 01/13/2009 Starring: Narrated By Edward Norton Run time: 95 minutes Rating: Nr
Description of Bustin' Down the Door:
In the early 1970s, Australian chargers Mark Richards, Peter Townend, Ian Cairns, and Wayne "Rabbit" Bartholomew landed in Oahu with something to prove. Hawaii was seen as the center of the surfing universe and the brash Aussies sought to shake things up. Along with South Africans Shaun and Michael Tomson, the crew ripped apart legendary breaks like Pipeline and Waimea with radical innovations and bravery that bordered on insanity. Combining classic footage and revealing modern-day interviews, Bustin' Down the Door exposes the soul of this revolutionary period in a way few surf films can. The ground-breaking talents of MR and Co. are rightfully lauded for helping to build the concept of professional surfing, yet no excuses are offered for the reckless arrogance that helped ignite a powder keg of cultural pride on the North Shore. The self-promoting Australians were not shy about their talents, but by the time Cairns declared that "Aloha is dead" during the summer of '75, competitive banter had dangerously escalated beyond the waves. But what the group lacked in diplomacy, they made up for in determination, as their shared desire to be the best gave rise to a new era of surfing. --Dave Callanan
Bustin' Down the Door Reviews:
Epic Story 
2009-12-10 - This is an amazing story about the transition of surfing from a Hawaiian culture to an international sport, and the key players involved. I would highly recommend this to anyone interested in surfing!
Me and my son's favorite surfing movie.
2009-11-30 - My 12 year old son and I starting surfing 2 years ago and now own about 7 surfing movies. We have now watched this movie about 5 times in one month! I don't just consider "Bustin' Down the Door" my favorite surf movie, it's just one of my favorite movies period.
Being 47 years old I used to read about "the bronzed aussies" in the surf mags, therefore I had a "one-up" on my son as to who these guys were, but my son is in agreement that this movie takes the cake.
Everything about this movie is solid, the opening song sequence is beautiful, the surfing is perfectly inter-spliced with the interviews,the story itself is absolutely key and brings together the legends of Hawaii with the "invading" south africans and austalians. There is much, much more to this story-you just gotta see it!
The ending scenes showing Shaun Tompson, Rabbit and (who was the 3rd guy?) surfing together currently, then blending into the young versions, was just fantastic!
Beautiful job, well done!
Good reflection on Surf Culture
2009-06-24 - This movie was introduced the summer of 2008. It's an excellent journal of how the US surf culture evolved and has changed for the better through the decades with the gradual inclusion of surfers from So. Africa and Australia. There's three different versions included, the movie itself, the commentary version, the movie w/only a soundtrack, as well as outakes.
Great soundtrack remenicent of the 60's & 70's garage-band sound.
Our friends both in and out of the surf community have been riveted when we've played this movie at home.
A great surf movie 
2009-03-01 - Beautiful surfing scenes. but there's one default : only spanish subtitles available, it's a real shame
Awesome Indie!
2009-02-09 - I saw this in the theatre and I recently bought the DVD.
Bustin' has some great vintage surfing sequences as well as an extremely compelling story motivated by a lot of emotion, both by the filmmakers and the subjects themselves.
Must see!!!
