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"Surfwise" is a surprisingly moving documentary that uncovers an unimaginably personal familial/social experiment.
Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz is the stuff of legend. After earning medical degrees from Stanford University and serving in the military, Doc became president of the American Medical Association in Hawaii and got divorced twice before living off the land in an Israeli desert for a year where he developed his ideas about healthy living.
He introduced surfing to Tel Aviv and found Juliette, the woman of his dreams, while conducting a study of the psychosexual behavior of 100 women. Living out of Doc's car, the star-crossed lovers began having the first of nine children they would home-school from the mobility of a 24-foot camper while living a nomadic surfing lifestyle built on the challenges their poverty presented.
Documentarian Doug Pray ("Scratch") connects the narrative dots between the Paskowitz's nine children that survived their unconventional upbringing with varying degrees of success.
You have to see this unusual story to believe it.
Rated R. 93 mins.
