Highwater

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Highwater

Released Aug 27, 2010

1h 30m

Documentary

Adventure

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Surfers are followed as they compete in the Triple Crown competitions in Oahu.

Peter Hartlaub

San Francisco Chronicle

Everyone is a saint in Brown's eyes, and few are especially interesting as a result.

Rated: 2/4

Sep 2, 2010

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Jeff Shannon

Seattle Times

Serving as director, co- editor and narrator, Brown turns the obsession of top-ranking surfers into a universally appealing celebration of excellence on the treacherous North Shore of Oahu.

Rated: 3/4

Sep 2, 2010

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Joseph Jon Lanthier

Slant Magazine

Brown's work here evinces the technically deficient and emotionless curiosity of a sellout.

Rated: 1.5/4

Aug 30, 2010

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

The big waves of Bruce Brown's famous '60s surfer movies like "Endless Summer" recede in son Dana Brown's piecemeal documentary about the 2005 Oahu North Shore Triple Crown surfing competition.

Rated: C-

Sep 8, 2010

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Beth Accomando

KPBS.org

In a way, Highwater is the antithesis of The Endless Summer, the film made by Brown's father, Bruce Brown, more than four decades ago.

Sep 6, 2010

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David Noh

Film Journal International

This surfing documentary plays like a more intimate, folksy companion piece to its superior predecessor, Step into Liquid.

Aug 31, 2010

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From the director of 'Step Into Liquid' (and son of the legendary director of 'Endless Summer'), comes a movie that doesn't quite make it up to par with the others. Yes, it has some great surf footage from the top pro-surfers (guys & ladies), but the movie can't decide if it's a documentary on 2009's Triple Crown contest or a documentary about life and the history of the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii. If you love surfing, you'll like it. If you don't, you'll at least 'get it' with this movie. It explains itself well to the novice viewer. I'd choose a few other surf movies to watch first though. Rating: 6/10

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/20/18

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MAKES ME WANNA GO TO THE BEACH

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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Makes you feel like you are there. Great cinematography too.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/21/23

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Looking forward to seeing this again on DVD. www.steamroom-movie.com

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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I love surfing documentaries, and this one is pretty dang good. It's all about the triple-crown competition on the Big Island's North Shore. It was cool to see the places that I visited (I didn't surf) a few years ago. I was there a few weeks before the competition, and never in my life had I witness such strong, powerful waves. It's intense. The film moves a little too fast, and fails to deliver a compelling narrative. However, the surfing footage is awesome.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/16/23

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One of the better surf movies I've seen lately. It features the athletes, community and families at the North Shore during The Van's Triple Crown of Surfing.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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Synopsis

Surfers are followed as they compete in the Triple Crown competitions in Oahu.

Director: Dana Brown
Producer: C. Rich Wilson
Screenwriter: Dana Brown
Distributor: Outsider Pictures
Production Co: ATO Pictures, Apostrophe Films
Genre: Documentary, Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 27, 2010, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 30, 2017
Runtime: 1h 30m

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