First Descent
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- Synopsis
- When snowboarding first rose to popularity in the 1980s, many people didn't know what to make of it -- taking the thrashed-out style of skateboarding and moving it to the ski slopes, snowboarding was hardly welcomed by the old-school winter sports ......
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- Starring
- Shaun White, Hannah Teter, Shawn Farmer, Nick Perata, Terje Haakonsen
- Director(s)
- Kemp Curley, Kevin Harrison
- Distributor(s)
- Universal
- MPAA Rating
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 111 min.
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Entertainment Weekly | Gregory KirschlingAdd Critic to Favorites
First Descent is not as eloquent, and thus not as electrifying, as Stacy Peralta's "Dogtown and Z-Boys" or "Riding Giants," the two jock docs it's clearly modeled after. No matter: Visually, MD Films offers up a sugar rush.Read the full review
San Francisco Chronicle | Peter HartlaubAdd Critic to Favorites
Succeeds as both education and amusement.Read the full review
Los Angeles Times | Kevin ThomasAdd Critic to Favorites
As a result, what should have been a thrilling 90-minute sport adventure runs on for 20 more repetitive minutes. First Descent is exciting, but less would surely have been more.Read the full review
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