About this movie
Cast & Crew
Cast
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Gerard Butler
Frosty Hesson
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Jonny Weston
Jay Moriarty
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Elisabeth Shue
Kristy Moriarty
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Abigail Spencer
Brenda Hesson
Directors
- Curtis Hanson
- Michael Apted
Producers
- Curtis Hanson
- Mark Johnson
- Brandon Hooper
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Chasing Mavericks
Reviews by Rotten Tomatoes
33%
percent positive reviews
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Casey Burchby, Village Voice
Floating atop the explosive breakers, like an overabundance of phytoplankton, is a roiling colony of clichs that stops at nothing to dominate the screenplay.
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Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine
It's a perfect fortune cookie of a movie, full of bland life lessons for everybody; would that there were some drama or style in it somewhere along the way.
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James Berardinelli, ReelViews
For Hanson and Apted, this is a rather inconsequential effort.
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Linda Barnard, Toronto Star
The heart-pounding surfing scenes are epic but the script can barely keep its head above the waves in the dramatized biopic Chasing Mavericks.
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Michael Posner, Globe and Mail
When every frayed plot device you've predicted makes its inevitable appearance, at least you'll have the majestic waves off the California coastline to comfort you.
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Tom Long, Detroit News
Never really [delivers] the sun-in-your-face, salt-in-your-hair, sandy-cocky thrill of surfing or surf culture.
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