JC is the hero of the Cornish surfing community. Staring thirty hard in the face, he fears that the wave that has carried him through a prolonged adolescence is heading for the rocks as his girlfriend pressures him for commitment and his friends contemplate growing up.
Acting
Young Ewan McGregor already has that chaotic twinkle.
Cinematography
Cornish coast looking impossibly gorgeous in 90s film stock.
Costume
Peak mid-90s British fashion crimes on full display.
Director
Carl Prechezer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Catherine Zeta-Jones's final British film before Hollywood came calling with The Mask of Zorro. She plays the grounded girlfriend while everyone else surfs into chaos.
Blue Juice captures a specific moment when British surf culture was having its ironic mainstream moment — the Cornish coast as UK's California dream, complete with all the cultural appropriation and genuine subculture tension that implies.
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