NORTH SHORE (FILM)

'''North Shore''' is a 1987 film about Rick Kane (Matt Adler), a young surfer from a wave tank in Arizona, who heads to surf the season on the North Shore of Oahu and see if he has what it takes to cut it as a pro surfer. As he prevails on his journey, he finds out the qualities he poseses are not going to pull him through alone.

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Professional surfers

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Synopsis

Kane quickly finds out he has neither the skills nor the attitude to make it. After the Hui, led by Vince (surfing legend Gerry Lopez), takes his stuff, he fortuitously runs into Turtle (John Philbin). Turtle introduces him to Chandler (Gregory Harrison), a shaper and soul surfer, who teaches Rick to surf and indoctrinates him in the nuances of the North Shore scene.

Professional surfers

North Shore features professional surfers Gerry Lopez, Laird Hamilton, Mark Occhilupo, Robbie Page (who plays Alex Rogers), 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''.

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