Soul Surfer (2011)

"...an authentic and heartfelt movie.  Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
"...a kind-hearted coming-of-age drama with killer waves.  Rob Nelson, Variety
"...a wholesome movie...  Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Editor's Note The story of surfer, shark-attack victim, and subsequent comeback surfing champion Bethany Hamilton is told in this inspirational drama from director Sean McNamara. AnnaSophia Robb, Dennis Quaid, and Helen Hunt topline the cast.

	Dennis Quaid
	Helen Hunt
	AnnaSophia Robb
	Carrie Underwood
	Lorraine Nicholson
	Kimberly-Rose Wolter - Co-Star
	Susie Singer Carter - Co-Star
	Kelly Crean - Co-Star
	David Stanfield - Co-Star
	Sonya Balmores - Co-Star
	Chris Brochu - Co-Star
	Dutch Hofstetter - Co-Star
	Gody Gomes - Co-Star
	Tahini Bartolome - Co-Star
	Tiffany Hofstetter - Co-Star
	Bridget Tully - Co-Star
	Dylan Slater - Co-Star
	Annie Gertsenberger - Co-Star
	Yasmin Dar - Co-Star
	Christie Brooke - Co-Star
	Cayla Moore - Co-Star
	Moon Otteman - Co-Star
	Kaleo Relator - Co-Star
	Irie Driscoll - Co-Star
	Faith Fay - Co-Star
	Beau Hodge - Co-Star
	Michael Coots - Co-Star
	Kaipo Guererro - Co-Star
	Rocky Canon - Co-Star
	Kim Morgan Greene - Co-Star
	Shelley Trotter - Co-Star
	Arlene Newman-VanAsperen - Co-Star
	Bailey Nagy - Co-Star
	Leilani Gryde - Co-Star
	Kristen Steiner - Co-Star
	Sean Patrick Mcnamara - Co-Star
	Ross Thomas - Co-Star
	John R. Leonetti - Director of Photography
	Wesley Mann - Co-Star
	Craig T. Nelson - Co-Star
	John Philbin - Co-Star
	Branscombe Richmond - Co-Star
	Patrick Richwood - Co-Star
	David Tice - Co-Star
	Kevin Sorbo - Co-Star
	Titus Kinimaka - Co-Star
	David Chokachi - Co-Star
	Jeremy Sumpter - Co-Star
	Mark Kubr - Co-Star
	Sean McNamara - Screenwriter
	Douglas Schwartz - Screenwriter
	David Townsend - Post-Production Supervisor
	Gregory J. Barnett - Stunt Coordinator
	Michael Berk - Screenwriter
	Jeffrey January - Assistant Director
	Marco Beltrami - Composer
	Chris Carpenter - Sound Re-Recording
	Brian L. Keaulana - Stunt Coordinator
	Mark Garbarino - Special Makeup Effects
	Andy Koyama - Sound Re-Recording
	Kenneth Burke - Production Manager/UPM
	Engine Room - Visual Effects Designer
	Scott Stambler - Music Editor
	Christina Lambert - Post-Production Supervisor
	Julie K. Smith - Set Decorator
	Julia Michels - Music Director
	Brad Gann - Screenwriter
	Jim Schultz - Music Editor
	Matt Allen - Screenwriter
	Caleb Wilson - Screenwriter
	Bethany Hamilton - Source Writer
	Base-FX - Visual Effects Designer
	Sheryl Berk - Source Writer
	Rick Bundschuh - Source Writer
	Deborah Schwartz - Story
	Deborah Schwartz - Screenwriter
	Mary Ann Changg - Hairstylist
	Bryan Furer - Makeup Designer
	Mike Su'a - Special Effects
	Landon Lan - Special Effects
	Shane White - Special Effects
	Doug Holgate - Photography
	Jibo Ren - Optical/Digital Effects
	Backlot Imaging - Visual Effects Designer
	Sean McNamara - Director

Entertainment Weekly
"[A] authentic and heartfelt movie....As Bethany recovers from her cataclysmic wound, AnnaSophia Robb's performance comes to life." -- Grade: B 04/15/2011

Movieline
"SOUL SURFER is the kind of sturdy, satisfying family drama that doesn't get made very often anymore....At crucial moments it shows there's actually a brain behind the camera." 04/07/2011

Sight and Sound
"Dennis Quaid is charmingly craggy....The lion's share of credit, however, should go to Hamilton herself, performing her own stunts and offering up some sweet surf sequences in the process." 11/01/2011

Orlando Sentinel 9 of 10
"Soul Surfer? is the best faith-based film ever made, an uplifting, entertaining and wonderfully-acted account of surfer Bethany Hamilton's life before and after a shark bit her arm off in the waters off her favorite Hawaiian beach...Co-writer/director Sean McNamara, a veteran of many a TV show, TV movie and "Bring It On? sequel, recreates Hamilton's seaside Hawaiian life, complete with surfing siblings and surfing parents. A coup; landing Oscar winner Helen Hunt to play the mom and the always athletic Dennis Quaid as the dad...Craig T. Nelson offers solid support as the doctor who treats Bethany and reassures the always-calm kid when she wakes up, "Those things you're not going to be able to do? So small.?...The religious subtext is handled as lightly as you'd expect in a movie about surfers. Bethany's faith gives her stoicism and resolve in the face of a calamity, alters her priorities and gives her purpose...If you followed dvds accounts of Bethany's story, you know she's one tough young lady. "Surfer? goes beyond the dvds to show her inspiring spirit and the soul that surfing, and her faith, have given her. - Roger Moore