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180 South | 
 enlarge | Director: Chris Malloy
Actors: Yvon Chouinard, Doug Tomkins
Studio: Magnolia Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 2783
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Running Time: 87 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 876964002981
UPC: 876964002981
EAN: 0876964002981
ASIN: B003DNLLN6
Theatrical Release Date: 2010
Release Date: June 8, 2010
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Product Description
Follows adventurer Jeff Johnson as he sets out to retrace the 1968 journey of Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins to Patagonia.
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Director Chris Malloy has struck gold with the powerful, multigenerational environmental documentary 180 Degrees South. This is a well-crafted film filled with a charismatic cast of outdoorsmen. It's artfully edited and has a pleasant soundtrack, making it one of the finest and most progressive documentaries on wilderness ethics yet. In this feature-length film, shot almost entirely on route to and in Patagonia, Malloy follows mountain climber Jeff Johnson as he attempts to live out an adventure modeled after his heroes, Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins, who traveled to Patagonia in 1968 and fell in love with the rugged country there. While the film opens with vintage footage of the Chouinard-Tompkins expedition rolling under Johnson's narration, one at first may expect 180 Degrees South to be a retread of their famous trek, which resulted in the formation of a nonprofit foundation dedicated to preserving South American wilderness. However, the viewer quickly learns that this film mainly stars Johnson, intimately narrating his thoughts about the good deeds Chouinard and Tompkins have done to promote wilderness ethics. Johnson also sincerely wonders who among new climbers and nature lovers have taken action to protect the lands they love. As Johnson sails his way down the Pacific Coast, he stops on Easter Island, which makes for gorgeous, scenic surfing footage. When he finally reaches his destination, Cerro Corcovado, Johnson meets Chouinard and Tompkins and their climbing begins. 180 Degrees South works as sheer travel documentary, but it is clearly a call to arms about protecting wild lands. Because Malloy treats this left-wing political stance delicately, commingling environmental message in with awesome climbing, sailing, and surfing footage, the film does not feel didactic. On the contrary, while it educates according to Chouinard and Tompkins's radical approach, its message feels mainstream enough to appeal to viewers who may not be converted before they see it. Because the director and the stars have taken this low-key tack, 180 Degrees South is all the more convincing as an educational tool. If you're craving inspiration or a call to action, this is your film. --Trinie Dalton
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 As unforgettable as the million other travelogue flicks... September 3, 2010
Gary Vidmar (Colorado Springs)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Platitudes about nature loom large and trite. Surfer-dude, nature-boy, free-spirit types with a camera crew take a vacation and yammer about crass commercialization and hatred of the consuming middle class. These outdoor types are just as boring as their bourgeois businessmen counterparts. Any IMAX travelogue is a better bet than this sermonizing vanity project.
 unbelievable! September 1, 2010
Mattb
I just got done watching this movie, and I am truly inspired by the things that are in it. A lot of work went into this and it has tons of amazing insights and footage! watch this movie and be amazed
Help save our planet! August 25, 2010
Kenneth T. Spurling (Illinois,USA)
I purchased this dvd because of the ppl in it. The story was an added plus. I have always hated those Christian Network commercials that ask you to give .24 a day to some kid in some foreign country... that said i now see why taking care of our planet and places like Pataongia is super important. I still say we need to fix the problems in our own country before sending money out to others but that doesnt mean we cant do our part to help save the land and environment.
Perfect... August 20, 2010
Rick
This is a great movie that really captures the spirit of the journey that it documents. Before you see it try to find "Mountain of Storms", the trip this one recreates, and it will make you appreciate 180 S that much more.
 Nicely choreographed inspiration August 18, 2010
Alexander Bjercke
The story behind this story, Chouinard's original adventure down to south America is hard to copy given that the geographical and political environment has changed so much, and the filmmakers deviated significantly from the path but ends up in pretty much the same spot. I find the story from Jeff's adventure to be quite loosely tied into Chouinard's and rather a choreographed docu about the alternative route. Images and scenery is spectacular, but I did not find the emotional impact to penetrate too deep. Maybe that is a good thing for me, but I did expect to be find myself wanting to pursue my own adventures to a greater extent because of this film, but that is not the result. What it did achieve was to make me more curious about Rapa Nui and Patagonia as travel destination.
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