THE GOOD, THE RAD AND THE GNARLY (1987)

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Comedy, Sports | 75 MIN | US

Departing from anything traditional in ski films. Greg Stump’s “THE GOOD, THE RAD AND THE GNARLY is designed as a visual music album. It chronicles a night in the life of Harry Ackerman (played by Dr. Delam star Minor Rootes), a regular man who has a series of disconcerting nightmares.

Snowboard with a teenage Craig Kelly and Damian Sanders. Skateboard with the Converse Skate Team that includes 17-year-old Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, Christian Hosoi, Lance Mountain, and Rodney Mullen, windsurf with Robby Naish, and ski with the world’s greatest ski bums of 1987… Scott Kennett, Geoff Stump, Lynne Weiland, Robert Aguirre, Chris “The Hatchetman” Haslock and Jeff “Wiley Coyote) Coffin.

It features the original music of Tom Blackwell, Ted Musgrave, Bob Thompsom, and Barrington Levy.

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Greg Stump

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