Soul Surfer (film)

Soul Surfer is an American surf film by Sean McNamara from the year 2011., The film adaptation of the biography of the same name tells the life story of surfer Bethany Hamilton, who lost in a shark attack one arm. The sports drama launched on 8 April 2011 in U.S. cinemas. Germany premiere was the 12th January 2012.

Action

The film tells the story of Bethany Hamilton. Bethany grows up in Hawaii and dreams as a child of becoming a professional surfer. The professional career seems her safe until she was attacked while surfing at age 13 by a tiger shark and loses her left arm. She is desperate, but has hope of being able soon be on her surfboard. Three weeks after this accident she is back on the board and continues to work on her career as a professional surfer. This turns out to be problematic, because it has much only re- learn. After they failed in a match, she decides to quit surfing. As Bethany travels to Thailand to help the victims of the tsunami, she brings an orphan at surfing and understands that surfing is not the most important thing in life. Encouraged, she begins again to train to participate in the Nationals. However, for this it is only the fifth place. A year later, they can decide the competition for himself and become a professional surfer.

Background

The film was produced by Sony, launched in the U.S. in more than 2000 theaters and played around 47 million U.S. dollars. In Germany the film by Walt Disney Productions was sold, was in theaters but not a great financial success. The DVD was released in Germany on June 7, 2012.

Reviews

  • Not offer dignity "Soul Surfer" with a true story and interesting actors like Dennis Quaid, Helen Hunt or cinema debutante Carrie Underwood, would this harmless, edifying and very religious water sports biopic really not worth mentioning: Patrick Heidmann wrote in CountryMusicNews.de.
  • The film was directed by movie guide named the best family film of 2011 before Hugo and The Muppets
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