Johnny Tsunami

Johnny Tsunami is a 1999 Disney Channel Original Movie. It was nominated in 2000 for the Humanitas Prize as Childrens LiveAction Category. Johnny Tsunami is the predecessor to Johnny Kapahala Back on Board, released in June 2007. The film focuses on a young surfer from Hawaii who must adapt to new challenges when his fathers job forces the family to move to Vermont.

In Johnnys new town, there are two schools one is a private school where the students are all skiers, and the other is the public school where all the students are snowboarders. Although Johnny goes to the skiers school, he would prefer to snowboard because he thinks it is more like surfing. Although he has a hard time at first, Johnny eventually learns how to snowboard with some help from Sam Sterling Lee Thompson Young.While at his new school, Johnny meets a girl named Emily Kirsten Storms, with whom he becomes good friends, but she is Headmaster Pritchards daughter. However, a skier named Brett likes Emily as well and doesnt think Johnny is right for her. During one incident in the mountain, the Urchins the students from the public school decide to ride the side of the mountain that belongs to the skiers and are confronted by the Skies the private school students. Emily attempts to learn how to snowboard with Johnny and his new friends, but gets hurt in the process. ........

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