Big Wednesday

by Denny Aaberg; John Milius

Narrated by A.T. Chandler

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Pub Date Oct 13 2020 | Archive Date Oct 18 2020

RB Media | HighBridge Audio

General Fiction (Adult)

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Description

Big Wednesday, based on the cult 1978 film by the same name, follows three California beach buddies begin to realize there is more to life than waxing down their surfboards as they ditch their alcoholic and unruly ways to go fight in the Vietnam War. When they reunite ten years later, they find that things in Malibu are much different after fighting a war.

Big Wednesday, based on the cult 1978 film by the same name, follows three California beach buddies begin to realize there is more to life than waxing down their surfboards as they ditch their...

Advance Praise

"The best movie that was made about the joy of Los Angeles is going to have to be, I think, John Milius's Big Wednesday. It's about surfers, over the course of an entire generation of surfers. It pretty much captures why people come to Los Angeles in the first place. It's the edge of the continent and the rest of the world begins just a few hundred yards offshore."
-Tom Hanks

"John had done his most personal screenplay, in my opinion. When I read Big Wednesday, I certainly thought it was his American Graffiti."
-Steven Spielberg

"John Milius was a surfer. He did hang out with a surfer crowd. He was going to try to represent that crowd the way he remembered it and the way he saw it, as opposed to the beach party movie versions of it."
-Quentin Tarantino