Sunshine Superman (2014)

A heart-racing documentary portrait of Carl Boenish, the father of the BASE jumping movement, whose early passion for skydiving led him to ever more spectacular -and dangerous- feats of foot-launched human flight.

Director:

Marah Strauch

Writer:

Marah Strauch

Stars:

Carl Boenisch, Pat Sajak, Phil Donahue

3 wins & 2 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Pat Sajak	...	Himself (archive footage)
Phil Donahue	...	Himself (archive footage)
Ellen Houlihan	...	Screening Party Attendee
John Long	...	Himself
Selia Hansen	...	Pretty Girl
Eric Bruggemann	...	Screening Party Extra
Lars Løge	...	Police Officer Norway
Marah Strauch	...	Jean Boenish
Cecilie Bull	...	Screening Party Attendee
Christian Bruno	...	Phil Smith
Eric Mofford	...	Screening Party Extra
Jake Suffian	...	Screening Party Attendee
Carl Boenisch	...	Himself (as Carl Boenish)
Kevin McGuinness	...	Screening Party Extra
Jean Boenish	...	Herself

Storyline

A heart-racing documentary portrait of Carl Boenish, the father of the BASE jumping movement, whose early passion for skydiving led him to ever more spectacular -and dangerous- feats of foot-launched human flight.

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Plot Keywords:

human flight | base jumping | f rated | extreme sport | parachute | 

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Taglines:

a film about falling

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Genres:

Documentary | Biography | Sport

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for thematic elements, some language, smoking, and a brief nude image

Details

Country:

Norway USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

22 May 2015 (USA)

Also Known As:

Gravity

Filming Locations:

Norway

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$22,891, 29 May 2015, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$87,875, 2 August 2015

Company Credits

Production Co:

Scissor Kick Films, Flimmer Film, Head Gear Films

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Crazy Credits

"Johnny Utah" is listed with others in the "Thanks" section of the credits; a possible nod to the main character from the movie Point Break

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Soundtracks

Something In The Air
Written by John Keen (as John David Percy Keen)
Performed by Thunderclap Newman
Published by: Spirit One Music o/b/o Spirit Services Holdings,
S.à.r.l., Suolubaf Music (a division of Fabulous Music Ltd.) and ABKCO Music Inc.
Courtesy of Polydor Records Limited
under license from Universal Music Enterprises and Gowmonk Inc.

User Reviews

Cool film and great documentary about a awesome subject and an interesting man.

It was a really good film that did a good job of capturing a moment in time and sketching out one man's contribution to Earth's history.

It's the exciting portrait of Carl Boenish, once an engineer, found the job boring in comparison to his hobby of Skydiving and while turning this, and his love of film, into a career he help to create BASE Jumping.

A lot of the footage from the movie was filmed by the subject himself, as he loves to film his jumps as much or more than he love to jump. All this personal footage made for a very personal documentary, especially as his friends and family narrated the entire film and told their own personal accounts of him.

One of the things I noticed about documentaries about subjects that are barely thirty to thirty five years old is that they have a lot of footage they can use. Boenish was enough of a celebrity in his own time, that the doc was able to use footage from TV and news coverage of the man as well as his own cinematography. And like other contemporary docs they used a lot of different forms of medium, like reenactments of things that did not happen on camera.

Which was not a lot. The filmmakers job was fairly easy as Carl love to document his life, and what a life it was, filled with nothing but joy and happiness, and inspiration to live life to the fullest to the very end.

Without doing much expect having the people still around to tell his story, tell it story, it became an up tempo doc that gets your spirits high after watching it.