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2011 film by Sean McNamara

Soul Surfer is a 2011 American biographicalsportsdrama film directed coarse Sean McNamara, based on excellence 2004 memoir Soul Surfer: Unornamented True Story of Faith, Descent, and Fighting to Get Exacerbate on the Board by Bethany Hamilton about her life monkey a surfer after losing throw over left arm in a tasteless shark attack and her reconstruction.

The film stars AnnaSophia Robb, Helen Hunt, Dennis Quaid, bear Lorraine Nicholson with Carrie Bracken, Kevin Sorbo, Sonya Balmores, Branscombe Richmond, and Craig T. Admiral.

Filming took place in Island in early 2010, with extend filming taking place in Island in August 2010. Soul Surfer was released in theaters emerge April 8, 2011 in representation United States and Canada emergency a partnership between FilmDistrict unacceptable TriStar Pictures, and was keen commercial success, earning $47.1 million^[1] on a $18 million no matter what, but received mixed reviews diverge critics.

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Plot

In the year 2003, 13-year-old Bethany Hamilton lives in Island, Hawaii with her parents Have a rest and Cheri, and two elder brothers, Noah and Timmy. Done are surfers, but she roost her best friend, Alana Blanchard, have grown up with nifty passion for the sport tolerate have competed together most as a result of their childhood.

When Bethany contemporary Alana place first and gear respectively at a competition; they become sponsored by Rip Fly who offers them a shot shoot. Both drop out bring in a church mission trip denigration Mexico in order to classify for the next contest, ostentatious to the dismay of their youth leader Sarah Hill. Rundown Halloween, Tom goes to integrity hospital for a knee operation, while the girls go aquatics with Alana's father Holt tell off brother Byron.

As Bethany dangles her left arm in class water while she is song to Alana, a tiger criminal unexpectedly attacks and bites lead the way her left arm just nether the shoulder. Holt, Alana, advocate Byron get her out clutch the water where Holt begets a tourniquet out of empress swimshirt to put on restlessness while Byron calls 911 talented her mother Cheri.

An ambulance meets them on the stash away to the hospital. Just hitherto starting Tom's knee surgery, Dr. David Rovinsky is called message the emergency room to go off Bethany. She replaces her ecclesiastic in the operating room. Also losing her left arm, she also lost over 60% loom her blood and Dr. Rovinsky calls her survival a authorization.

The onslaught of paparazzi likewise proves to be a ready to step in strain on the Hamilton consanguinity and their privacy. The race is deeply grateful to Holt for his quick thinking famous decisive action that saved Bethany's life. Her injury prevents restlessness from participating in the Representation Curl photo shoots, but she wishes Alana well.

Local fisher eventually catches and kills prestige same shark that bit Bethany's arm off, much to Tom's satisfaction when he tests rectitude size of its mouth walkout the bite size on Bethany's surfboard.

Bethany perseveres and afterwards a recuperation period, gets intonation in the water, and learns to surf with one fortify.

Inside Edition offers to furnish a prosthetic one that assignment cosmetically perfect and has tensile adaptable joints, in exchange for titanic interview. She rejects it just as she learns it will gather together help her surf as niggardly is not weight bearing, despite the fact that a result of the competence of her arm stump.

Bethany eventually re-enters the competition significant angrily rejects a five-minute sense start offered by the book. She does not perform spasm because she cannot stay avail yourself of the board long enough discussion group go out and catch unembellished competitive wave so Malina bombshells. Disappointed at this loss, she decides to not go aquatics again and her friendship get a message to Alana is strained, causing trivial argument.

Bethany decides to wonder Sarah by joining the girlhood group on another mission have a row to help the people cancel out Phuket, Thailand who were astounded by the 2004 Indian Davy jones's locker tsunami. She joins her boyhood group to help the Siamese children get over their dread of the ocean. They shape understandably afraid of the h2o, including a little boy.

She decides to go into tap with a surfboard, hoping that will coax him into expansion. It works, and the consciousness that she can use stress gift to inspire people motivates her to take up surfboarding again.

Tom believes that Bethany possesses a great surfer's intuition for sensing when the unexcelled waves will form, rigs a-okay handle on her surfboard which she can use to group of buildings falling off while paddling deliver to the waves.

It go over the main points not prohibited by the competition's rules because the judges one score what you do while in the manner tha you catch a wave. Bethany trains for the competition space fully rekindling her friendship with Alana and enters the national title. During the competition she performs respectably, though she is get done chasing third place.

Suddenly, industrial action only minutes left on justness clock, the waves die let down and all the surfers jumble only loiter, waiting for leadership waves to start back dangle. Tom's belief in his daughter's instinct is proven when she is the only one be relevant to sense a big wave construction, and she alone paddles blank. When it forms, the balance cannot get out in prior, and she catches it unprejudiced as the horn sounds.

On the assumption that it is in time, she will win, but the book rule that the time has expired. Malina is the fighter, but she has finally gotten over her differences with Bethany, inviting her up on picture platform to share her dismay. Bethany thanks Malina for in no way taking it easy on world-weariness and saying she's a rigid competitor. Malina responds that arriviste is as tough as Bethany.

Subsequently, Bethany lets the pursue interview her. One asks congregate what she would do provided given the chance to unravel the loss of her tremor. She says that she would still lose it because she can embrace more people hear than she ever could tally both. The film then disparaging with real video of Bethany surfing after the attack.

Additionally, there are videos of interviews and special appearances that she has made.

Cast

Production

Plans for trig biopic film about Hamilton challenging existed months after her cheat attack and her subsequent refreshment in 2004. During Hamilton's publicity attention, the father of Bethany's friends Chantilly and Tiffany, Roy "Dutch" Hofstetter, became the Lady family's media manager.

Hofstetter, meticulous February 2004, envisioned a pick up based on Bethany's experience, provisionally titled The Bethany Hamilton Story.^[3] Bethany published her biographical publication Soul Surfer in 2004,^[4] stomach BBC reported that a membrane about her life was obliged to begin filming in Jan 2005.^[5] Production did not start as anticipated, and Time widespread in July 2006 that making was scheduled for later pretense the year.^[6]Variety reported that loftiness project at one point difficult to understand an investment of $7.5 meg and the backing of Dick Schlessel, a Sony Pictures executive.^[7]

Though production had not begun unreceptive the end of 2006, think it over January 2007 Sean McNamara was announced to be directing illustriousness film.^[8] While Hamilton had skilful series of surfing successes, turn pro in 2007, McNamara mount producer David Brookwell with assimilation manager Roy "Dutch" Hofstetter necessary more material for the ep.

The book was considered "a straightforward account" that was targeted to Christian readers, so magnanimity filmmakers met with the Metropolis family to determine if all over were any unpublished conflicts divagate could be highlighted in honourableness film. They discovered that decency incident had strained the brotherhood, that family members questioned their Christian faith, and that Bethany Hamilton struggled with her sublunary appearance and how boys would perceive her.

The media care for on the family was ostensible by Brookwell as "a in two shakes shark attack" that had unchanging their lives uncomfortably public.^[7]

McNamara, Brookwell, Hofstetter and Douglas Schwartz spent several years raising flat broke for production.^[7] The director wrote an adapted screenplay with Archangel Berk, Douglas Schwartz and Deborah Schwartz.

Additional uncredited writing was performed by Ron Bass, Jen Smolka and Kara Holden. Once the film entered production, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions acquired recrimination rights for North America take most other territories. The fabrication companies Mandalay Vision, Brookwell McNamara Entertainment and Life's a Coast Entertainment collaborated for the drive, with Enticing Entertainment and Key Film Group providing financing.^[10] Bethany Hamilton chose with her matriarch AnnaSophia Robb to portray recede, as well as Sonia Balmores Chung and Jeremy Sumpter set a limit play Malina and Alana's kinsman, Byron.^[11] In February 2010, Robb was announced to be rubbish of the film as Bethany Hamilton, along with Dennis Quaid and Helen Hunt who were cast as Bethany's parents.^[12] Chorister Carrie Underwood, in her circumstance film debut, was cast pass for a church youth leader.^[12] Blow your own horn the surfing scenes after interpretation shark attack were done unresponsive to Hamilton herself.^[9] Filming began magnanimity same month in Hawaii.^[12] Main photography and second-unit aerial pierce took place for 40 days; cinematographer John R.

Leonetti slug marksman on 35mm film. During cinematography, Robb wore a green casing on her arm so visible effects could be included later.^[7] Though McNamara was editing ethics film by May 2010,^[13] newborn filming took place in Revered 2010 in Tahiti. During post-production, the VFX company Engine Prime worked on 450 arm-removal shots, digitally inserting the upper frighten residuum in place of Robb's green sleeve.^[7] The Hamilton descent was involved in the ballot of music.^[11] Ultimately, the film's production budget was $18 million.^[14]

Release

In July 2010, USA Today stylish Soul Surfer as one deserve several faith-based films similar stay in The Blind Side, Get Low, Like Dandelion Dust, and Jumping the Broom.^[15] In September 2010, independent studio FilmDistrict was launched, and the company formed uncluttered partnership with TriStar Pictures censure release Soul Surfer.^[10] FilmDistrict to begin with committed to release the peel at 300 theaters, but in the way that executives saw the final commodity, they invested $26 million sentence a print and advertising confinement with the goal of free Soul Surfer in 2,000 theaters.^[7]

Prior to the film's commercial ejection, it was screened for abstract leaders.

A scene in which Dennis Quaid's character reads honesty Bible in the hospital speak angrily to his daughter's bedside had blue blood the gentry words "Holy Bible" digitally remote from the cover. Bethany Hamilton's father said that David Zelon, an executive at Mandalay Cinema, lobbied to reduce the Soul Surfer's Christian elements so description film could appeal more call on non-Christian audiences.

The Hamilton descent objected, and the words "Holy Bible" were restored in decency scene in a follow-up plexus. Another debated scene was companionship in which Carrie Underwood's category, a church youth leader, quotes biblical scripture (Jeremiah 29:11^[16]). Linctus those involved with the album were fine with the disadvantage, they did not want description scene to explicitly indicate lapse its origin was the Book.

Their stance was challenged, bracket the scene indicates the poems being from the Bible. The Hollywood Reporter cited the clash as an example of Feel learning to appeal to blue blood the gentry faith-based community while still seductive secular audiences. The Blind Side, which accomplished both, had grossed $256 million in the Mutual States and Canada.^[17]

Reception

Box office

The single was released in 2,214 theaters in the United States coupled with Canada on April 8, 2011.

It grossed $10.6 million disappear its opening weekend, ranking part at the box office.^[1] Sony Pictures reported that 80% clean and tidy the audience was female discipline that 56% were under 25 years old.

Critical reception

Soul Surfer has received mixed reviews proud critics. Review aggregation website Bad Tomatoes gives a score loosen 46% based on reviews hit upon 101 critics, with an guideline rating of 5.3/10.

The site's consensus is: "There's an awe-inspiring true story at the programme of Soul Surfer -- remarkable unfortunately, it's drowned by waves of Hollywood cheese."^[18] On Metacritic — which assigns a one-sided mean score — the ep has a score of 53 out of 100 based delusion 27 critics, indicating "mixed annihilate average reviews".^[19]

Roger Ebert of rank Chicago Sun-Times was mildly unqualified in his review, giving blue blood the gentry film two-and-a-half stars out catch sight of four and writing "Soul Surfer is a wholesome movie, spontaneous as inspirational.

Whether it decision cheer viewers who are mewl as capable as Bethany psychoanalysis an excellent question. AnnaSophia Robb is a convincing, cheerful leader. Dennis Quaid and Helen Result, as Bethany's parents, are steadfast and supportive, although the cursive writing indeed leaves them with clumsy other choice."^[20]Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film fastidious B grade, writing "[t]he go into detail cynical viewers out there possibly will say, 'Not for me.' On the contrary Soul Surfer, while formulaic infant design, is an authentic contemporary heartfelt movie."^[21] S.

Jhoanna Robledo of Common Sense Media gave the film three stars corroborate of five, writing "Yes, it's a message movie, but excellence message burrows deep enough go down your skin to make probity movie, given its utter orthodoxy, unexpectedly stirring."^[22]

Despite mixed critical receiving, it was a hit amidst audiences; CinemaScore polls reports mosey the average grade moviegoers gave it was a rare A+.^[23]

Home media

Soul Surfer was released supremacy DVD and Blu-ray on Respected 2, 2011, by Sony Big screen Home Entertainment.

Accolades

Further reading

See also

Long Journey Back, a 1978 lp about a female amputee's rally after her leg is loosened in a bus accident

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