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Matt Johnson, Jack Barlow, and Leroy Smith are three young California surfers in the 1960s. At first reveling in the carefree life of beaches, girls, and waves, they eventually must face the fact that the world is changing, becoming more complex, less answerable by simple solutions. Ultimately the Vietnam war interrupts their idyll, leaving them to wonder if they will survive until "Big Wednesday," the mythical day when the greatest, cleanest, most transcendent wave of all will come.
1962. Friends Matt Johnson, Jack Barlow and Leroy Smith are generally regarded the surfing kings of their Southern California beach, it a time of their life when the future holds so much promise despite they arguably thinking solely of the here and now. They are under the unofficial mentorship of Bear, a slightly older beach bum who gladly provides them with the use of his surf boards. Their lives and that of some of their closest friends at key points over the next twelve years are shown, the transitions into adulthood with their implied responsibilities, including to family, and the transitions with relationship to the period, which include the Vietnam War and the counterculture movement, not always smooth ones and not always holding their friendship together in how each deals with those transitions. Although past their surfing primes, they, if their pasts are any indication, may be reunited at the big swell of 1974 as the lure of this monumental surf may be too big despite its potential dangers.
Jan-Michael Vincent
Matt Johnson
William Katt
Jack Barlow
Gary Busey
Leroy Smith
Patti D'Arbanville
Sally Jacobson
Lee Purcell
Peggy Gordon
Sam Melville
Bear
Darrell Fetty
Waxer
Gerry Lopez
Gerry Lopez
Hank Worden
Shopping Cart
Joe Spinell
Psychologist
Steve Kanaly
Sally's Husband
Barbara Hale
Mrs. Barlow
Fran Ryan
Lucy
Dennis Aaberg
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Reb Brown
Enforcer
Robert Englund
Fly
Keith Davis
Ostrich
Johnny Fain
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