Three friends. Twelve Turbulent Years. And One Day We All Must Face.

A day will come that is like no other... and nothing that happens after will ever be the same


Jan-Michael Vincent plays a self-destructive beach bum to whom surfing is a Zen experience. We first meet Vincent in the devil-may-care 1960s, in the company of his carefree buddies William Katt and Gary Busey. The boys reunite ten years later, after one has served time in Vietnam. The beach is still there, the waves still break upon the shore, and towards the end of the film, the characters become people that we truly care about. Barbara Hale, the real-life mother of costar William Katt, makes a piquant supporting appearance. Cut from 129 minutes to 104 for its pay-cable release, Big Wednesday is also known as Summer of Innocenc


Big Wednesday (1978) is an American coming of age film directed by John Milius. Milius co-wrote Big Wednesday with Dennis Aaberg, and it is loosely based on their own experiences at Malibu and a short story Aaberg had published in a 1974 Surfer Magazine entitled "No Pants Mance."[2] The picture stars Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt and Gary Busey as California surfers facing life and the Vietnam War against the backdrop of their love of surfing.
Although initially a commercial failure, the film has found a cult audience in the years since its release following Jan-Micheal Vincent and William Katt's successes on the television shows Airwolf and The Greatest American Hero respectively.