Soul Surfer
Soul Surfer biographical drama of Hamilton Bethany, a teen surfer who lost one arm in a shark attack, but with encouragement from friends and families wont give up on herself.
4 April 1944, Spokane, Washington, USA
16 January 1968, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
25 October 1988, Laguna Beach, California, USA
16 April 1990, Los Angeles, California, USA
8 February 1990, Kauai, Hawaii, USA
9 September 1974, San Clemente, California, USA
3 June 1967, New York City, New York, USA
April 08, 2012
All that separates this from made-for-TV territory is another strong turn from gifted young lead AnnaSophia Robb.September 25, 2011
A well-meaning, handsomely staged biopic of the top Hawaii-based surfing star Bethany Hamilton who lost her arm to a shark in 2003 at the age of 13...September 24, 2011
It's ultimately let down by some heavy-handed sentimentality, an over-abundance of Bible-bashing and some dodgy CGI sequences.June 23, 2013
A well-intentioned, big-hearted, wannabe-crowd-pleaser that just happens to be so incompetently made that it might be rejected by Oprah's channel.April 09, 2011
Hamilton is played, blandly, by Anna Sophia Robb, and her devoted parents, less bland, are played by Dennis Quaid and Helen Hunt. The surfing footage, much of it shot off the coast of Kauai, is not bland at all.June 30, 2013
A solid and inspiring story about faith and family.April 08, 2011
It's Bethany and Alana's friendship - its sturdiness and vulnerability, its laughs and sincere apologies - that rules the day.May 06, 2011
Soul Surfer seems simply too sugar-coated to be true.January 09, 2013
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.April 10, 2011
You wonder why this movie isn't a documentary, rather than a synthetic feature film with the heroine's arm digitally removed.April 08, 2011
A by-the-numbers biopic about young surfer Bethany Hamilton.September 21, 2011
A succession of would-be rousing clichés.