Bra Boys isn't really a documentary at all but a piece of PR propaganda designed to counteract years of bad press. Beautiful, soaring, exhilarating propaganda, no doubt, but propaganda nonetheless.
Bra Boys
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Australia · 2007
Rated R · 1h 30m
Director Sunny Abberton, Macario De Souza
Starring Russell Crowe, Jai Abberton, Koby Abberton, Sunny Abberton
Genre Comedy, Documentary
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The Bra Boys, a brotherhood of surfers, are infamous in Sydney for their hard-partying and rowdy lifestyle. In this documentary, narrated by Russell Crowe, the notorious Australian surf gang tells their story for the first time.
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The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
This crude, rowdy movie is also unexpectedly touching in its embrace of surfing as an escape from the stigma of poverty and broken homes. Escape from Russell Crowe’s droning narration, however, is impossible.
The film is narrated by Russell Crowe, whose star power is probably the only reason it's being released here.
Portland Oregonian by M. E. Russell
As a chronicle of an extreme surfing subculture, Bra Boys is semi-fascinating. As a chronicle of rough-and-tumble street life, it's appallingly biased and self-glorifying.
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
What it lacks in objectivity, it makes up for in vivid intimacy.
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