Customer Reviews for Five Summer Stories

Five Summer Stories

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Description of Five Summer Stories

Heralded as "the finest surf movie ever made," Five Summer Stories is a cultural icon, a time capsule from a watershed era when the world was at a critical crossroads and its reflection was clear in the emerging sport/art of surfing. Against a backdrop of the Vietnam War and the Nixon years, Five Summer Stories was the culmination of the joint surf-film careers of Jim Freeman and Greg MacGillivray. Code named "The Last Surfing Movie" during production, the movie portrays a young, outlaw sport at a strategic point in its creative evolution - and at an historic crux in time. Now you, too, can do what audiences of the 1970's did - you hoot and scream and go crazy - all in the privacy of your own home.

Sports reviews of Five Summer Stories

Customer Review: Classic
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars

One of the best surf films I have seen and, for the first time it was a little more than 30 years ago. Gerry Lopez at his best, Jeff Hackman at Sunset, lots of frames that make me go back to old issues of The Surfer. Action, sense of humour, skateboard action, good soundtrack, magic footage by Greenough... Even today a collector's piece and enjoyed by surfers that were not born when 5 Summer Stories were "told" on the screens around the world.

Customer Review: Epic Film
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars

If you surfed in the seventies, you had to hear about this film. It was perhaps the best portrail of the period in surfing. With an excellent soundtrack by "Honk" it is a must have for older surfers and new ones alike. It has been out on Video (VHS only) for several years, and when I first saw it I was reminded of the first time I saw it on Screen in the 70's. I like it now as much as I liked it then- check it out!

Customer Review: Timeless
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars

As a surf shop manager, I see most everyone surf video that comes out, and yet this is still my absolute favorite. The fact is this video perfected the surf medium; good pacing, varied location, small bits of humor, and absolutely phenomenal music.
I've seen this movie hundreds of times, and yet it never gets old. Buy this, even someone who doesn't surf can still enjoy it.

Customer Review: Great Surf Film
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars

I was in Junior High at the time when I saw this film at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. It was always a treat to see surfing films there because as the movie went on it became increasingly difficult to see the movie half way thru due of all the Reefer smoke clouding the screen. Good Times!
Da Kine Bra!!