"Blues" doesn't quite cover it. "Horrors" would come closer. The thin veil of pity and laughter is ripped aside periodically, however, for some slow-motion surfing footage, some ogling of teenage flesh, and a rousing John Ford-ian beach brawl. The focus of this Australian youth movie is on a couple of conformist girlfriends who seek status through acceptance as surfer groupies, and who, in a very mild climax, reach a new (and relative) level of maturity when it occurs to them to paddle out into the surf themselves on their very own surfboard. Directed by Bruce Beresford. (1983) — Duncan Shepherd
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