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Big Wednesday was a box office flop upon its release, and was quickly pulled from theatres after taking in only $4.5 million. [1] William Katt explained in a 1979 interview with Roger Ebert a year after the film's release that he believed the movie's failure was due to the marketing focusing only on the fight scenes and surfing angle.
key grip (as Ken Adams) Mike Chevalier. ... camera operator: second unit. Thomas Del Ruth. ... camera operator (as Tom Del Ruth) Buzz Feitshans IV.
May 26, 1978 · Big Wednesday: Directed by John Milius. With Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt, Gary Busey, Patti D'Arbanville. Character study about the lives of some California surfers from the early 1960s to the 1970s as the Vietnam War interrupts their carefree life.
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- Drama, Sport
- John Milius
- 1978-05-26
Alexandra Rose. Tamara Asseyev. Buzz Feitshans. Basil Poledouris. Dennis Aaberg. John Milius. Three 1960s California surfers fool around, drift apart and reunite years later to ride epic waves.
The Novel Before the Movie. "Big Wednesday" started as a novel written by John Milius and Denny Aaberg and was initially published in 1978 by Bantam Books. "The novel is a story about old Malibu, its waves, its local characters, and what it was like to surf there in the 1950s and 1960s," explains Aaberg. "The 40th-anniversary edition of 'Big ...
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Feb 27, 2004 · Big Wednesday is the opposite of all those "beach party" movies of the early 1960's; it takes surfing as seriously as the surfers themselves. Matt (Jan-Michael Vincent), Jack (William Katt) and The Masochist (Gary Busey) are three buddies who are the local surfing champions of Malibu in the early 1960's.
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Matt Johnson, Jack Barlow, and Leroy Smith are three young California surfers in the 1960s. At first reveling in the carefree life of beaches, girls, and waves, they eventually must face the fact that the world is changing, becoming more complex, less answerable by simple solutions. Ultimately the Vietnam war interrupts their idyll, leaving ...
