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Name: Big Wednesday
Released: 1978-5-26
Cast: Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt, Gary Busey, Patti D'Arbanville, Lee Purcell

Big Wednesday

PG
1h 58m
1978

67%

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A day will come that is like no other... and nothing that happens after will ever be the same. Three friends who share a passion and talent for surfing are separated by military service in Vietnam, but return to the same beach ten years after the summer they ruled the waves. Now, with their innocence lost to the deeds they committed on a jungle battlefield, the three grown men rediscover their shared love of the ocean in this coming-of-age story.

Director:

John Milius

Producer:

Buzz Feitshans, Alex Rose, Tamara Asseyev

Writer:

John Milius, Dennis Aaberg

Cast:

Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt, Gary Busey, Patti D'Arbanville, Lee Purcell, Sam Melville, Darrell Fetty, Gerry Lopez, Hank Worden, Joe Spinell, Steve Kanaly, Barbara Hale, Fran Ryan, Dennis Aaberg, Reb Brown, Robert Englund, Keith Davis

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

67%

Reviews

The New Beverly

Quentin Tarantino

While all in all I prefer Milius' directorial debut Dillinger, it's hard to argue against the idea that his surfer epic "Big Wednesday" isn't his classic.

April 12, 2022

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El Pais (Spain)

Augusto Martínez Torres

A poorly made film that lacks ambiguity and results excessively evident. [Full Review in Spanish]

Looking back at the strong, young cast, the evocative sense of time and place and the thrilling ocean imagery, Big Wednesday certainly deserves a spot among the pantheon of classic surfing films.

[VIDEO ESSAY] Milius constantly revisits the ocean's churning surf as a literal and metaphoric yardstick to underscore the movie's themes of personal responsibility, loyalty, and the pressures of unpredictable social change.

June 22, 2017

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Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Dennis Schwartz

Remains noteworthy as a cult film.

April 26, 2021

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