North Shore is a 1987 film about Rick Kane (Matt Adler), a young fictional surfer from a wave tank in Arizona, who heads to surf the season on the North Shore of Oʻahu and see if he has the skills to cut it as a pro surfer. As he progresses on his journey, he learns the qualities he possesses are not going to pull him through alone.
Synopsis
Rick Kane, approximately 18 years of age at the start of the film having just graduated high school, uses his winnings from a wave tank surfing contest in his native state of Arizona to fly to Hawaii the summer before that start of college to try and become a professional surfer. He takes a plane to Honolulu with plans to stay with a surfer that he met in Arizona six months ago. Once he arrives he realizes that he has no place to stay, and on his first attempt at surfing he finds out he is not as good as he thought he was, plus his stuff gets stolen from the beach. Rick quickly finds out he has neither the skills nor the attitude to make it. After the Hui, led by Vince (surfing legend Gerry Lopez), take 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 advises him in the nuances of the North Shore scene. The film's antagonist is named Lance Burkhart (Laird Hamilton), who plays the role of a cocky and often frightening surfer, appearing from time to time to bring an element of danger to the film.
Kane also falls in love with Kiani (Nia Peeples), a beautiful local girl who encourages him to follow his dream.
The film climaxes with a surf contest on Banzai Pipeline.
Professional surfers
North Shore features professional surfers Shaun Tomson, Gerry Lopez ("Vince"), Laird Hamilton ("Lance Burkhart"), Mark Occhilupo, Robbie Page ("Alex Rogers"), Mark Foo, Derek Ho, Hans Hedemann, Ken Bradshaw 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.
Part of the plot is parodied in Surf's Up.
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