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Surfwise Review, by Manohla Dargis of The New York Times
There are many different ways to drop off the grid, but few dropped off with such style and urgency as Dorian Paskowitz, the paterfamilias of what is lovingly and at times enviably described as the first family of surfing. It was an intensity in p...
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Cast & Crew
- Dr. Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz as
Himself - Juliette Paskowitz as
Herself - Moses Zyus Paskowitz II as
Himself - Adam Paskowitz as
Himself - Jonathan Paskowitz as
Himself - Salvador Paskowitz as
Himself - David Paskowitz as
Himself - Joshua Paskowitz as
Himself - Abraham Paskowitz as
Himself - Israel Paskowitz as
Himself - Navah Paskowitz as
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Like many American outsider-adventurers, Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz set out to realize a utopian dream. Abandoning a successful medical practice, he sought self-fulfillment by taking up the nomadic life of a surfer. But unlike other American searchers like Thoreau or Kerouac, Paskowitz took his wife and nine children along for the ride, all eleven of them living in a 24 foot camper. Together, they lived a life that would be unfathomable to most, but enviable to anyone who ever relinquished their dreams to a straight job. The Paskowitz Family proved that America may be running out of frontiers, but it hasn't run out of frontiersman.
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