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Through 20 years of sports and verite footage, The Crash Reel chronicles the rivalry between Kevin Pearce and Shaun White which culminates in Kevin's life-changing crash and later comeback. The film also showcases the Pearce family, including Kevin's father glass-blower Simon Pearce and Kevin's brother David C. Pearce who describes his struggle ...
Oct 4, 2013 · With Kevin Pearce, Shaun White, Mason Aguirre, Daniel Amen. Fifteen years of verite footage show the epic rivalry between half-pipe legends Shaun White and Kevin Pearce, childhood friends who become number one and two in the world leading up to the Vancouver Winter Olympics, pushing one another to ever more dangerous tricks, until Kevin crashes ...
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- Documentary, Biography, Sport
- Lucy Walker
- 2013-10-04
Summaries. Fifteen years of verite footage show the epic rivalry between half-pipe legends Shaun White and Kevin Pearce, childhood friends who become number one and two in the world leading up to the Vancouver Winter Olympics, pushing one another to ever more dangerous tricks, until Kevin crashes on a Park City half-pipe, barely surviving.
Dec 13, 2013 · The film is about Kevin Pearce, the fresh-faced, ingenuous and totally rubber-limbed snowboarder destined for a brilliant career when a practice run for the Olympic trials in 2009 landed him just the wrong way. The disaster was caught on video by a passerby, and it's a recorded metaphor for life's tragedies: the fluke of it all, the why.
Smart, compassionate, and moving, The Crash Reel uses the familiar sport-doc formula to subvert expectations and ask challenging questions about ambition and achievement. Snowboarder Kevin...
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- Documentary
- Lucy Walker
Jul 4, 2013 · Those words, simple but painful for a parent to hear, are essentially what Lucy Walker's moving documentary, The Crash Reel, is about: the way traumatic brain injuries — wounds that,...
Jun 13, 2013 · Henry Barnes: The crash reel – a montage of falls by snowboarders – is turned painfully on its head in Lucy Walker's documentary about the long drop from athletic excellence to frail...
