Rip Girls

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Rip Girls
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Directed by	Joyce Chopra
Produced by	Steve McGlothen
Written by	Jeanne Rosenberg
Starring	Camilla Belle
Music by	Phil Marshall
Distributed by	Disney Channel
Release date(s)	April 22, 2000
Running time	87 min.
Language	English
IMDb profile

Rip Girls is a Disney Channel Original Movie

[edit] Plot Summery

Camilla Belle as 13 year old Sydney Miller who revisits her homeland Hawaii and discovers her own inner strength through surfing and other island riches. Her overprotective father keeps her from surfing with her new friend Gia and her other friends. Although not allowed, she does so anyway after finding her deceased mother's old surfboard. After a surfing accident, she meets her mother's old friend, Malia, and is able to learn more about her mother, which her father never told her about. While at a ceremony celebrating the coming of whales, she learns how her mother died. Her mother was a surfer, and on one great day of surfing she drowned in a horrible spurt of waves. Her new friends start disrespecting her because she had an inheritance to a beach and rumor was that she was going to sell it. However, she proves them wrong by not signing the papers. Her parents decides to, because of Sydney's wishes, move there. While there, she meets a boy named Kona (Brian Christopher Stark) and they develop a relationsip.