Five Summer Stories

"The Last Surfing Movie"

Apr 12 1972 N/A 1h 34m
Documentary, Sport

The culmination of a ten year celebration in celluloid, Greg MacGillivray and Jim Freeman give us five-plus exciting, controversial and beautiful stories about surfing. A perspective that warns of the future while it warms the present.

Plot

Heralded as "the finest surf movie ever made," Five Summer Stories is a cultural icon, a time capsule from a watershed era when the world was at a critical crossroads and its reflection was clear in the emerging sport/art of surfing. Against a backdrop of the Vietnam War and the Nixon years, Five Summer Stories was the culmination of the joint surf-film careers of Jim Freeman and Greg MacGillivray. Code name "The Last Surfing Movie" during production, the movie portrays a young, outlaw sport at a strategic point in its creative evolution--and at an historical crux in time. Now you, too, can do what audiences of the 1970s did--you can hoot and scream and go crazy--all in the privacy of your own home. "For the surfing afficianado, Five Summer Stories is an incredible barrage of audio-visual stimulus." SURFER Magazine

Written by

Jim Freeman, Greg MacGillivray

Directed by

Greg MacGillivray

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

MacGillivray Freeman Films

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
64
Average Rating
8.3 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA