Saw this one at the Aspen Film Festival in very limited release. A women recovering from a recent divorce purchases a home on the North Shore of Oahu to start a new life for her and two teenage boys. Their home soon houses a surrogate family for a couple of dozen boys with broken stories and big dreams of becoming professional surfers. An older surfer becomes a surrogate dad and this little “family” launches some of surfing’s greatest (Rob Machado, Tom Dorian, Kelly Slater, etc.). When fame, success, and money start to break down the “family”system, the boys all go their separate ways. In a beautiful redemptive turn, the most successful among them, Kelly Slater, restores relationships with all the guys, creates a “family” text and starts an annual “family” reunion they attend.

• IMDB 8.1

• Rotten Tomatoes 100%/100%

• (TV-14)