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Girls Can't Surf

Girls Can't Surf

7.8

7 votes

March 11, 2021

1h 48m

Documentary
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Overview

It’s the 1980s and the world of professional surfing is a circus of fluorescent colors, peroxide hair and radical male egos. "Girls Can't Surf" follows the journey of a band of renegade surfers who took on the male-dominated professional surfing world to achieve equality and change the sport forever. Featuring surfing greats Jodie Cooper, Frieda Zamba, Pauline Menczer, Lisa Andersen, Pam Burridge, Wendy Botha, Layne Beachley and more, "Girls Can't Surf" is a wild ride of clashing personalities, sexism, adventure and heartbreak, with each woman fighting against the odds to make their dreams of competing a reality.

Directed by

Christopher Nelius

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Cast

P

Pam Burridge

L

Lisa Anderson

W

Wendy Botha

J

Jodie Cooper

R

Rochelle Ballard

P

Pauline Menczer

J

Jolene Smith

J

Jorja Smith Harmon

Nick Carroll

Nick Carroll

J

Jamie R. Brisick

Ian Cairns

Ian Cairns

A

Alisa Schwarzstein Cairns

F

Frieda Zamba

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