When young Jay Moriarity discovers that the mythic Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on Earth, exists just miles from his Santa Cruz home, he enlists the help of local legend Fr... Read allWhen young Jay Moriarity discovers that the mythic Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on Earth, exists just miles from his Santa Cruz home, he enlists the help of local legend Frosty Hesson to train him to survive it.When young Jay Moriarity discovers that the mythic Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on Earth, exists just miles from his Santa Cruz home, he enlists the help of local legend Frosty Hesson to train him to survive it.
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- (as Maya Raines)
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- (as L. Peter Callendar)
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- TriviaGerard Butler nearly drowned when a 20 foot wave broke on his head whilst filming a scene at Mavericks, California.
- GoofsThere is a sign on the door of Pleasure Pizza in the scene before Kim and Jay first kiss with a phone number that has 831 as the area code. The area code for Santa Cruz and Capitola was still 408 in 1994. The change to 831 happened in '98.
- Quotes
Frosty Hesson: We all come from the sea, but we are not all of the sea. Those of us who are, we children of the tides, must return to it again and again, until the day we don't come back leaving behind only that which was touched along the way.
- Crazy creditsA short video clip of the real Jay Moriarity is seen at film's end.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Episode #20.71 (2012)
- SoundtracksPlowed
Written by Vinnie Dombroski (as Vin Dombroski), Jimmy Paluzzi, Joe Mazzola, Michael Cross and Timothy Cross
Performed by Sponge
Courtesy of Columbia Records
By arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment
P.S. Only bad thing is no mention of Jeff Clark. A little bummed at first but I got over it :)
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- Oct 31, 2012
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- Of Men and Mavericks
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- Budget
- $20,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $6,002,756
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,268,274
- Oct 28, 2012
- Gross worldwide
- $7,942,116
- Runtime1 hour 56 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1