If you thought your “peeps” were dysfunctional, just wait until you get a load of the Paskowitz kin in “Surfwise.” About what some consider to be the first family of surfing, director Doug Pray’s indie documentary won’t just make you feel better by comparison about your own clan’s neuroses. It’s probably the most engrossing movie of the year so far.
The outrageous, hilarious and heartrending piece introduces us to the fanatic idealist patriarch Dr. Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz, a surfing pioneer since the 1930s, and the continuing legacy of his radical philosophies of life on his nine children.
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